Married to Barbara Follett, the former Labour Member of Parliament for Stevenage, Ken and his family live in a rambling rectory in Hertfordshire and also spend time in London and Antigua. This story about the building of a cathedral in the Middle Ages continues to captivate millions of readers all over the world, and was voted into the top 100 of Britain's best-loved books in the BBC's The Big Read. Ken was just twenty-seven when he wrote the award-winning thriller Eye of the Needle, which became an international success, but he surprised everyone in 1989 with The Pillars of the Earth. With global sales in excess of 170 million copies, his novels have been sold in over eighty countries and translated into thirty-seven languages. Can they catch the master spy before he uncovers Cairo's secrets and the campaign fails? About the AuthorThe international number one bestseller Ken Follett has published over thirty books in a career spanning more than forty years. Vandam enlists the help of courtesan Elene Fontana, who agrees to try and ensnare the spy in exchange for a better life in Palestine. Intelligence officer Major William Vandam is tasked with hunting down the Sphinx before the British are defeated. Led by Rommel, the Germans are closing in and the Sphinx's reports on British troop movements and strategic plans are giving them the edge.
The British campaign in North Africa hangs in the balance. Known to his handlers as the 'Sphinx', Wolff is a Nazi spy with a brutal desire to succeed. Following a relentless trek across the scorching Sahara, he arrives in the city with a copy of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, a lethal blade and a trail of bodies in his wake. The Key to Rebecca is a gripping thriller set during the Second World War, from the number one bestseller and author of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett.ġ942. In Cairo during the Second World War, a lone spy has one chance to complete his mission and sabotage the British war effort in North Africa.
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