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Overview

Like no other suspense author in his genre, Follett reinvents the thriller with each newstoryline. But nothing matches the intricate, knife-edge drama of Whiteout.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786554331
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/20/2007
Edition description:	Unabridged

About the Author

Ken Follett is one of the world’s best-loved authors, selling more than 160 million copies of his thirty books. Follett’s first bestseller was Eye of the Needle, a spy story set in the Second World War.

In 1989 The Pillars of the Earth was published, and has since become the author’s most successful novel. It reached number one on bestseller lists around the world and was an Oprah’s Book Club pick.

Its sequels, World Without End and A Column of Fire, proved equally popular, and the Kingsbridge series has sold 38 million copies worldwide.

Follett lives in Hertfordshire, England, with his wife Barbara. Between them they have five children, six grandchildren, and three Labradors.

Hometown:

Hertfordshire, England

Date of Birth:

June 5, 1949

Place of Birth:

Cardiff, Wales

Education:

B.A. in Philosophy, University College, London, 1970

What People are Saying About This

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"An adrenaline pumping thriller." —Associated Press
"Movie-style twists and hairbreadth escapes." —Wall Street Journal
"Undeniably suspenseful." —Entertainment Weekly

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Editorial Reviews

Praise for Whiteout
"A blizzard of treachery and violence . . . an adrenaline-pumping thriller." —The Associated Press
"[A] feverish plot." —Rocky Mountain News
"Movie-style twists and hairbreadth escapes." —The Wall Street Journal
"Undeniably suspenseful." —Entertainment Weekly
"Scary . . . provides a rush of fear." —New York Post
"Almost nonstop action with a plausible and sufficiently frightening plot . . . a page-turner, pure and simple." —The Tennessean
"Follett goes down a high-concept road. . . . [He] handles the tension of the circumstances nicely." —San Francisco Chronicle
"A literate, plausible, suspenseful tale that keeps you turning pages well past bedtime." —The Raleigh News & Observer
"A new breed of thriller . . . an agonizingly protracted, nail-biter ending drags readers to the very edge of their seats and holds them captive until the last villain is satisfactorily dispatched." —Publishers Weekly
"Follett's sure hand at the controls of a high-octane plot delivers the expected thrills." —Booklist
"Exciting? Absolutely. . . . Follett makes the formula work with his trademark strong females, large cast of characters, and race-against-the-clock pace . . . high-speed escapism." —Library Journal
"Follett's trademark tension and breakneck pacing." —Kirkus Reviews
"Exciting." —The Kansas City Star

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