Product Description

There is no other author like Ken Follett. And there is no other book like Triple. This classic tale of international suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author strikes a chord of fear-as the Middle East explodes into a high-stakes game of espionage that could be ripped out of today's headlines...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #967210 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-03
• Released on: 2004-08-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

About the Author
Ken Follett is the international bestselling author of suspense thrillers and the nonfiction On Wings of Eagles.

Customer Reviews

How Israel Got The Bomb
Follett intertwines history with imagination and tells the story of how Israeli secret service agents out-conned the Soviets, Arabs, and just about everybody else, to get the nuclear weapons technology needed for their nation's survival. Set in the time between the 1967 and 1973 Mid-East wars and revolving primarily around an Israeli agent and concentration camp survivor named Nat Dickstein, Triple is big on thrills and carefully-presented plot twists, and nowhere is it even for a moment boring. Nat Dickstein is one of Follett's best and most sympathetic creations. Entirely human, no whisperings of James Bond or Superman within him, the emotionally-vulnerable Dickstein falls in love with the daughter of a western intellectual whose sympathies lie with the Arab cause. Opposing Dickstein are Palestinians sworn to Israel's destruction, and elite KGB agents with special dispensation from none other than Yuri Andropov to do whatever it takes to keep plutonium out of Jewish hands. The story slips in and out of a number of settings, from the "neutral ground" of western Europe, to mafia family strongholds in New York, to the killing grounds of the Middle East, and in a few cases it even returns in flashback form to the horrors of Nazi death camps in the 1940's. Triple, though written a generation ago and set a decade before that, by no means seems like historical fiction. Its stories of a small-scale nuclear arms race, espionage, and passionate hatred threatening liberty, are every bit as pressingly current today as they were almost forty years ago.

A hair-raising read
25 years after its first edition, this book is still topical. It takes its readers into a violence and explosive world of espionage, alternated with love, passion, desire, hate, confidence/faith and deception. This book is certainly a compulsive and satisfying piece of art.