El Tercer Gemeloc (Los Jet de Plaza & Janes) - Softcover

Follett, Ken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 843970240X ISBN 13: 9788439702405

Publisher: Grijalbo Mondadori, S.A., 2003

Synopsis

455pp , ABOUT THE AUTHOR :: Ken Follett (Cardiff , Wales, June 5, 1949 ) is a British author of thrillers and históricas.Dejando other two competent but undistinguished works , The Modigliani Scandal and Paper money , the literary career Follett has gone through different phases. The first and most distinguished phase comprises Eye of the Needle ( renamed in the Anglo market as the eye of the needle ) and the five books ( four books of fiction and nonfiction ) that followed. All were variations of the classic spy thriller , two bold and resourceful agents against a large and well-equipped enemy. Scenarios are both chronologically and geographically diverse, from Europe in the First World War in The Man from St. Petersburg to (then ) present Iran and Afghanistan in On Wings of Eagles and Lie Down with Lions . As in the early works of Frederick Forsyth, another journalist turned novelist , suspense early works of Follett pay much attention to how things are done . The Key to Rebecca , for example turns on the work of a particular kind of secret codes. Radio transmitters clandestine play a major role in Eye of the Needle . The 6 books , including The wings of the eagle, the true story of a successful attempt to rescue two American employees of Ross Perot 's company EDS from Iran after the Iranian Revolution , follow the basic conventions of the thriller genre . The 6 books , however, use these conventions in unconventional ways : making the " hero" Eye of the Needle a German agent , for example. The second phase of the race of Follett was a conscious departure from the first: a series of four historical novels written in the late 80's and early 90's The Pillars of the Earth , the first of the four , set a pattern to the three that followed. In contrast with the early works of suspense Follett , it featured a large cast , multiple plotlines, occasional outbursts of violence , and extensive use of historical background. The Pillars of the Earth , located in medieval Engl

About this edition

• Publisher: Grijalbo Mondadori, S.A.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 843970240X
• ISBN 13: 9788439702405
• Binding: Paperback