 | The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 My favorite book ever written. Not Follett's typical style, but engrossingly better. Full of incredible detail and character development. Can't wait for the sequel. I read this 2-3 times each year.
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 | A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A wonderful story that really painted a vivid picture of the times. Tension level second only to "Pillars." My favorite heroine in all of Follett's books (and that's saying something)
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 | Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Follett's breakthrough novel full of top-notch suspense. As he says in the preface, something like this MUST have happened in WWII. Too big a deception to stay secret.
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 | The Man from St. Petersburg (Signet) by Ken Follett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Fascinating and nerve-wracking, in the same vein as "Needle." Full of intriguing details about Russia, anarchism and the women's suffrage movement.
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 | Triple (Signet) by Ken Follett
Buy used from: $0.01 I enjoyed this one a lot more than I thought I would, given the subject matter. Complex, but completely plausible, the three story lines come together brilliantly at the end.
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 | Paper Money by Ken Follett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 As a journalist, I really enjoy this one, as it gets the newsroom atmosphere exactly right. One crime, several points of view. The characters aren't developed quite enough, though.
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 | Night Over Water by Ken Follett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Good character developement and excellent setting, but it seems a little too convenient the way everything plays itself out. Only suspense is with the businesswoman who could lose her business.
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 | The Modigliani Scandal by Ken Follett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Another good, short one with many intertwining storylines (like Paper Money.) My only regret is that it's not long enough to give more character development. Great story, though.
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 | The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Villain is second only to Henry Faber from "Needle" (not counting half the characters in Pillars) but this story is a little lacking. Pretty much the same plot as Needle and St. Petersburg
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 | Jackdaws by Ken Follett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I need to re-read this one, but from what I remember it was pretty good. I liked the heroine a lot (of course ... that's Follett's forte)
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 | Lie Down with Lions (Signet) by Ken Follett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Great description and some powerful moments (especially the bridge and ambush scenes) but overall a little disappointing. Heroine seems a little too wishy-washy to me. Over-the-top sex scene.
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 | A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 From here on out, not so good. I enjoyed this one once, but probably wouldn't read it again. Good scenes in London, but Scotland and America are lacking.
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 | Hornet Flight by Ken Follett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Embarrassingly predictable, which is a shame because the setting is great and the detail fascinating -- especially the when it goes into the importance of radar technology.
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 | Code To Zero by Ken Follett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 It's probably unfair of me to criticize this book for this reason, but I'm getting really tired of Spy-with-amnesia stories. (Long Kiss Goodnight, Bourne Identity, etc.)
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 | The Hammer of Eden by Ken Follett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Interesting only for its exploration into hippie commune life, the plot is WAY too cheezy for me to believe. I mean, cmon. Earthquake terrorism?
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 | The Third Twin by Ken Follett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 By far my least favorite Follett book. I can't get into the characters, the plot is way too shaky and, again, cheezy to enjoy. Once finished, I put it down and vowed never to read it again.
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 | Whiteout by Ken Follett
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $0.01 I haven't read this one or the Ross Perot book yet, but I'm anxious to.
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