Berlin, 1961: Just before the Wall permanently divides the city in two, Rebecca Hoffman, a teacher monitored by the Stasi, makes a discovery that turns her entire world upside down... At the same time in America, the young mixed-race and brilliant lawyer George Jakes joins Bob Kennedy's team, as the black struggle led by Martin Luther King reaches its peak. And on the other side of the world, the ambitious Dimka Dvorkin rises quickly in the Kremlin hierarchy, while his sister takes her own path, leading her from Moscow to Cuba and from there to Prague and Warsaw...
Through the lives of its heroes, starting from the 1960s and reaching up to the last years of the 20th century, Ken Follett masterfully narrates major historical events such as the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassinations of great leaders, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
An exciting depiction of an era of dramatic changes and a world we thought we knew, but which after this work will never seem the same again.