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_aPR6056.O45 _bW56 2012 |
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_aFIC FOL _2 |
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_aFollett, Ken _d(, 1949-) |
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_aEdge of eternity _c/ Ken Follett |
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_aNew York _b: New American Library _c, c2014 |
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_a1098 p. _c; 23 cm |
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_aCentury trilogy _v; book 3 |
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520 | _aEast German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers shes been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedys Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own. Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than hed imagined. Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes a prime agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tania, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw and into history. | ||
546 | _aEnglish. | ||
650 | 4 |
_aWorld politics _y-1945-1989 _x-Fiction |
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655 | 4 | _aPolitical fiction | |
655 | 4 | _aSpy stories | |
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