Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett
Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett
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Eye of the Needle

Author: Ken Follett

Narrator: Samuel West

Unabridged: 11 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 02/09/2021

Synopsis

The worldwide phenomenon from the bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A Column of Fire, and The Evening and the Morning

His code name was “The Needle.” He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence—a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood, and the object of the most desperate manhunt in history. . . . 
 
But his fate lay in the hands of a young and vulnerable English woman, whose loyalty, if swayed, would assure his freedom—and win the war for the Nazis. . . . 

About Ken Follett

Ken Follett, a Welsh novelist has written important bodies of work, such as: Eye of the Needle, The Key to Rebecca, Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, Whiteout, The Century Trilogy. His genre includes thrillers and historical fiction. As a youth he was never allowed to watch television or movies, so out of boredom, he developed a keen interest in reading.

Follett had various jobs on his pathway to being a novelist. He was a general assignment reporter for the Evening News in London. He found that work to be very unchallenging, so he took a position as managing director of Everest Books and began writing fiction as an evening hobby. With the publication of Eye of the Needle in 1978 he became not only internationally known, but also wealthy. Follett’s next project is a third book in his Kingsbridge series. The first two were The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, and is to be released in 2017.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Holly on May 29, 2021

A enthralling tale with falling off your seat suspense. I absolutely couldn't stop thinking about the characters and their plight in this "older" gem of a read! I enjoy WWII historical fiction and this one delivered on many fronts. The terrifying German spy called "The Needle", a determined British i......more

Goodreads review by Dana on November 08, 2018

If you have never read any of Follett's work, then this is a good place to start. The paperback is 368 pages, which is shorter than many of his other books. If you like his style, then his other books have even more point-of-view characters that he rotates his narration around. I'm guessing that Fol......more

Goodreads review by Maria on October 27, 2020

Um Amor Complicado Por onde passa deixa um rasto de morte. Mata com um estilete e por isso lhe chamam o Agulha. Tem uma missão a cumprir e é tudo o que lhe importa. Até que Ela aparece... E... se mais quiserem saber... terão que ler a sinopse ou outras resenhas (algo que definitivamente não recomendo)......more

Goodreads review by James on July 30, 2023

For years, Ken Follett has been one of the authors I most admire... but given the length of his novels and the historical aspects, I tend to only read one or two a year -- and he has a lot to catch up on. This year, I started with Eye of the Needle, perhaps his most well-known novel. A German spy is......more

Quotes

"Top-notch suspense . . . a terrific thriller . . . spellbinding." —The Miami Herald
 
"Great . . . one of the twelve best thrillers from the last fifty years." —Rocky Mountain News

"Extraordinarily satisfying . . . a truly suspenseful novel . . . heart-stopping, nerve-freezing terror." —Los Angeles Times 

"A spy novel of the highest order." —The Baltimore Sun

"Really thrilling." —The New York Times Book Review

"An absolutely terrific thriller, so pulse-pounding, so ingenious in its plotting, and so frighteningly realistic that you simply cannot stop reading." —Publishers Weekly 

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