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…. 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…. Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House…. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits…. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. They recently chatted with Audible editor Diana Dapito about the new epic book, and what it was like to write and record it.įall of Giants is Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic. Ken Follett and John Lee, the author and narrator of Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, are back together again for Fall of Giants, the first in The Century Trilogy.
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