For the Pilasters, sex and love are weapons in a war for power and wealth and one explosive secret becomes the weak link that can bring down a dynasty. In 1866, a pupil at an exclusive public school drowns in a mysterious accident involving several boys. Among them are young Hugh Pilaster; his cousin Edward, the weak dissolute heir to the Pilaster banking fortune; and Micky Miranda, the darkly handsome son of a brutal South American land owner. The drowning and its aftermath initiate a spiralling circle of treachery that will last for three decades and entwine many lives.
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Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom. From the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship to a sprawling Virginia plantation, a vivid cast of heroes and villains, lovers and rebels, hypocrites and hell-raisers are propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives forever. -
Code to Zero: Ken Follett
$18.00A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his mind stripped bare of all recollection. He has no idea how he got there; he does not even know his own name. Convinced he is a drunken bum, it isn’t until a newspaper report about a satellite launch catches his eye that he suspects all is not what it seems. The year is 1958, and America is about to launch its first satellite in a desperate attempt to match the Soviet Sputnik and regain the lead in the space race. As Luke Lucas gradually unravels the mystery of his amnesia, he realizes that his fate is bound up with that of the rocket that stands ready on launch pad 26B at Cape Canaveral. And as he relearns the story of his life, he uncovers long-kept secrets about his wife, his best friend and the woman he once loved more than life itself. -
Book II of The Century trilogy. East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she’s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives; George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy’s Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own; Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he’d imagined; Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes a prime agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tania, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw – and into history. -
Fall Of Giants: Ken Follett
$7.00–$20.00Book One of the Century Trilogy. Master tale-spinner Follett tells of five families brought together through the dramas of the World War I, the Russian Revolution and the struggle for votes for women. In 1911, on King George's coronation day, 13-year-old Billy begins his first day at work in a coal mine. Drama and intrigue move on from this point, from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the filth and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace and from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. -
Hornet Flight: Ken Follett
$12.00June, 1941 - and a baffling Luftwaffe message mentioning a new invention code named Freya is picked up by the decoders of Allied Intelligence. Hermia Mount, a British Intelligence analyst, suspects the existence of a experimental radar station on the coast of Denmark. Meanwhile, young Harald Olufsen, a brilliant Danish student, has spotted an unusual installation near his island home. Unable to resist a challenge, Harald is soon drawn into Hermia's investigation, but when he finally learns the truth, he finds the only way of getting to England with the information is in a near derelict Hornet Moth biplane, mouldering away in the nave of a ruined church... -
Jackdaws: Ken Follett
$8.00Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications - but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the 'Jackdaws' and they will penetrate the chateau in disguise. But unknown to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless Intelligence colonel. Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And Dieter is on Flick's trail... -
Jackdaws: Ken Follett
$15.00Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attack a chateau housing a telephone exchange vital to German communications - but the building is heavily guarded and fails dismally. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team - the Jackdaws - and penetrate the chateau in disguise. But unknown to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless intelligence colonel, Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And he is on Flick's trail...Ken Follett dedicated this book to the fifty women who were sent into France as secret agents. -
When Jane is caught in a deadly love triangle between rival spies Ellis and Jean-Pierre, she becomes entangled in a web of lust, hatred and deception which sweeps them all from terrorist conspiracies in Paris to all out guerilla warfare in Afghanistan. Jean-Pierre and Jane marry and got to work as doctors in the Valley of the Five Lions to help the rebels fighting for their freedom against the Russians. Confronted by extreme violence and danger, Jane desperately tries to get out of the line of fire. Then help comes, unexpectedly, in the form of her husband's greatest enemy... -
Never: Ken Follett
$10.00In the Sahara Desert, two elite intelligence agents are on the trail of a powerful group of drug-smuggling terrorists, risking their lives - and, when they fall desperately in love, their careers - at every turn. Nearby, a beautiful young widow fights against human traffickers while traveling illegally to Europe with the help of a mysterious man who may not be who he says he is. In China, a senior government official with vast ambitions for himself and his country battles against the older Communist hawks in the government, who may be pushing China - and its close military ally, North Korea - to a place of no return. And in the United States, Pauline Green, the country's first woman president, navigates terrorist attacks, illegal arms trading, and the smear campaigns of her blustering political opponent with careful and deft diplomacy. She will do everything in her power to avoid starting an unnecessary war. But when one act of aggression leads to another, the most powerful countries in the world are caught in a complex web of alliances they can't escape. And once all the sinister pieces are in place, can anyone - even those with the best of intentions and most elite skills - stop the inevitable? -
September, 1939: A few days after World War II is declared, the Pan American Clipper, the most luxurious aircraft ever built, makes its last Europe-New York civilian flight for the duration. The passengers are desperate to escape something much more menacing than war - their hidden, haunted pasts. There is a titled English fascist and his eccentric family; a sheltered young beauty hungry for reckless love; a runaway wife and the American who seduced her; a feuding brother and sister; a handsome, charming thief; a wanted escapee and an ancient princess who has known better days. They will be thirty hours airborne, in the luxurious beds, the gourmet dining room, the endless champagne. But an inescapable nightmare awaits them all.
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Paper Money: A politician wakes with a beautiful girl; a criminal briefs his team; a tycoon breakfasts with a Bank official. Then three stories break: an attempted suicide, a hijack, and a takeover bid. Three seemingly unrelated events, nothing to keep the tabloid editors awake - until ambitious young Evening Post Kevin Hart starts asking questions...A Place Called Freedom: Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom. From the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship to a sprawling Virginia plantation, a vivid cast of heroes and villains, lovers and rebels, hypocrites and hell-raisers are propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives forever. -
Paper Money: A politician wakes with a beautiful girl; a criminal briefs his team; a tycoon breakfasts with a Bank official. Then three stories break: an attempted suicide, a hijack, and a takeover bid. Three seemingly unrelated events, nothing to keep the tabloid editors awake - until ambitious young Evening Post Kevin Hart starts asking questions... Eye Of The Needle: His weapon is the stiletto; his code name: The Needle. Henry Faber, German aristocrat, coldly professional, a killer...Germany's most feared deep-cover agent in Britain. A master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood. His task: discover the Allies' plans for D-Day and get them to Germany at all costs. His plans are ruthlessly carried through - until Storm Island, and the woman named Lucy... -
The huge brightly painted vehicle ground down through the gears...it looks like a crazy fairground ride, but two men have already died to bring to its location. If it does its job now, countless others face destruction. In the cab is the man known to his disciples as Priest and two women. bonded by idealism and love. Star's is for the guru who once brought reality to her dreams; the younger Melanie's is for her child, the same man and the future. Priest stopped running when he founded the commune lost in the foothills of Sierra Nevada, never once leaving the 60s behind...because without it, he's just another tortured ex-mobster, with no space for his soul to find peace. A week ago, he and his friends went on radio claiming they could bend the Governor of California to their will. The cops in Sacramento had heard their demands a million times before. The only one taking them seriously is FBI agent Judy Maddox. Because this time, they've promised an earthquake to force the issue... and the earthquake is now forty-eight hours away... -
His name was Feliks. He came to London in that long last summer of the British Empire to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord and the young Winston Churchill himself. These odds would have stopped any man in the world - except the man from St. Petersburg... -
His name was Feliks. He came to London in that long last summer of the British Empire to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord and the young Winston Churchill himself. These odds would have stopped any man in the world-except the man from St. Petersburg... -
Beginning in 1135 and concluding forty years later, this is an epic, unputdownable tale of treachery, politics, civil war, medieval life and the building of a cathedral. Follett has created the most memorable characters in fiction since Gone With The Wind. Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the noblewoman reduced to poverty - a lady who fights back! Philip, the Prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone and Ellen, the mysterious woman who dwells in the forest and her curse that reverberates down the decades. These characters and many more are wonderfully alive in a well-researched narrative that never dives in sickly romance. We have recommended this book to many - all of whom have come back in search of more books by Follett. Cover art by Andrew Wheatcroft. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/evening-morning-ken-follett/ -
Beginning in 1135 and concluding forty years later, this is an epic, unputdownable tale of treachery, politics, civil war, medieval life and the building of a cathedral. Follett has created the most memorable characters in fiction since Gone With The Wind. Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the noblewoman reduced to poverty - a lady who fights back! Philip, the Prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone and Ellen, the mysterious woman who dwells in the forest and her curse that reverberates down the decades. These characters and many more are wonderfully alive in a well-researched narrative that never dives in sickly romance. We have recommended this book to many - all of whom have come back in search of more books by Follett. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/evening-morning-ken-follett/ -
It begins with a curse, a song and a hanging and it's a story you will never forget. Beginning in 1123, this story is a historical epic surrounding the politics, the Church, the monarchy and the lives lived in the England of this period. It weaves historical events into the narrative of the fictional characters over a forty year span: Aliena, the daughter of the disgraced nobleman Earl Bartholomew; William Hamleigh from a social-climbing, ruthless family; Jack and his mother Ellen, forest dwellers; Tom Builder, the stonemason walking the roads with his family searching for his ultimate life's work and Prior Phillip of the Kingsbridge monastery and his ambition to build a beautiful cathedral. A book that can only be described as 'unputdownable'. We have sold numerous copies of this book and the customer always comes back in search of more Ken Follett. -
It begins with a curse, a song and a hanging and it's a story you will never forget. Beginning in 1123, this story is a historical epic surrounding the politics, the Church, the monarchy and the lives lived in the England of this period. It weaves historical events into the narrative of the fictional characters over a forty year span: Aliena, the daughter of the disgraced nobleman Earl Bartholomew; William Hamleigh from a social-climbing, ruthless family; Jack and his mother Ellen, forest dwellers; Tom Builder, the stonemason walking the roads with his family searching for his ultimate life's work and Prior Phillip of the Kingsbridge monastery and his ambition to build a beautiful cathedral. A book that can only be described as 'unputdownable'. We have sold numerous copies of this book and the customer always comes back in search of more Ken Follett. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/evening-morning-ken-follett/ -
Beautiful scientist Jeannie Ferrami stumbles across the baffling mystery of identical twins Steve and Dan, yet they were born on different days to different mothers - and one is a law student and the other is a convicted murderer. They are a world apart - but when Steve is accused of a terrible crime, Jeannie begins to question just how different they really are. As she begins to fall in love with Steve, not only her professional future is threatened - so is her life. They will uncover the mystery and bring the secrets to life, but some secrets were meant to be left alone. -
The Third Twin: Ken Follett
$12.00Beautiful scientist Jeannie Ferrami stumbles across the baffling mystery of identical twins Steve and Dan, yet they were born on different days to different mothers - and one is a law student and the other is a convicted murderer. They are a world apart - but when Steve is accused of a terrible crime, Jeannie begins to question just how different they really are. As she begins to fall in love with Steve, not only her professional future is threatened - so is her life. They will uncover the mystery and bring the secrets to life, but some secrets were meant to be left alone.
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Triple: Ken Follett
$6.001968. Israeli intelligence has learned that Egypt, with Soviet help, will develop atomic bombs within months - an untimely end for the young nation unless a source of uranium for Israeli bombs can be had in complete secrecy. Impossible, of course - unless someone as impossible as the plan can be found to steal it. Working alone, Israeli agent Nat Dickstein concocts an ingenious scenario for the biggest - and quietest - hijacking in history. Against him are the KGB, Egyptian Intelligence and the Arab extremist Fedayeen. With him is a half-English, half-Arab young woman of uncertain allegiance, who discovers Dickstein's Achilles' heel.
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Whiteout: Ken Follett
$6.00As a blizzard whips up on Christmas Eve, several people converge on a remote family home. Stanley Oxenford, director of a pharmaceutical research company, has everything riding on a drug he is developing to fight a lethal virus. His children, at home for the holiday with their off-spring have their eyes on the money he'll make; Toni Gallo, head of his security team and recently forced to resign from the police, is betting her career on keeping it safe; an ambitious local television reporter sniffs a story even if he has to bend a few facts; and a trio of vicious thugs are on their way to steal it - for a waiting client. As the storm worsens and the group is under siege from the elements, emotions run high and dark secrets are revealed.
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Whiteout: Ken Follett
$15.00As a blizzard howls from the north on Christmas Eve, several people converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, director of a pharmaceutical research company, has everything riding on a drug he is developing to wipe out a lethal virus. His children, home for Christmas with their offspring, have their eyes on the money he will make; Toni Gallo, his head of security and ex-police officer is betting her career on keeping it safe; an ambitious local television reporter sniffs a big story; and a trio of violent thugs are on their way to steal it, with a client already waiting for the goods. Trapped by the storm, emotional sparks crackle and dark secrets emerge that could drive Stanley and his family apart forever. A story full of startling twists.
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Book II of The Century trilogy. This volume picks up immediately after Fall Of Giants. Five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, Welsh - enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide until she commits a deed of great courage and heartbreak; American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific; English student Lloyd Williams discovers, in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War, that he must fight Communism just as hard as Fascism; Daisy Peshkov, a driven American social climber, cares only for popularity and the fast set, until the war transforms her life, not just once but twice, while her cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will affect not only this war -but the war to come. Jacket Image: A watch found on the body of a victim of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, August 6 1945. The watch stopped at 8.15 a.m. when the bomb exploded. Getty Images © -
The sequel to The Pillars of the Earth. Kingsbridge, 1327: two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge - and this time the descendants of Aliena and Jack, and others find themselves at the crossroads of new ideas - medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice - and there are those who are determined to cling fiercely to the old ways.On the day after Hallowe'en, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. In the forest, they witness the murder of two men. As adults, their lives become intertwined by desire, determination, avarice and retribution. They will experience the worst natural disaster to befall mankind - the Black Death - and they will also experience prosperity, famine and war. Yet they will always live under the shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day...