Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

Synopsis

Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man`s world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar an American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson`s White House...two orphaned Russian brothers Grigori and Lev Peshkov embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war conscription and revolution...Billy`s sister Ethel a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich a spy at the German embassy in London...These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered the action fast-moving the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic.

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