On Wings of Eagles, Ken Follett
On Wings of Eagles, Ken Follett
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On Wings of Eagles

Author: Ken Follett

Narrator: Full Cast

Unabridged: 12 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 04/25/2007

Synopsis

When two of his American employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands: American businessman H. Ross Perot. His team consisted of a group of volunteers from the executive ranks of his corporation, hand-picked and trained by a retired Green Beret officer. To free the imprisoned Americans, they would face incalculable odds on a mission that only true heroes would have dared.…“Superb…Ken Follett’s fans may be reluctant to see him return to fiction.” —The New York Times Book Review“A marvelous, rare, terrific read…as exciting as a novel.” —USA Today

About Ken Follett

Ken Follett, a Welsh novelist has written important bodies of work, such as: Eye of the Needle, The Key to Rebecca, Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, Whiteout, The Century Trilogy. His genre includes thrillers and historical fiction. As a youth he was never allowed to watch television or movies, so out of boredom, he developed a keen interest in reading.

Follett had various jobs on his pathway to being a novelist. He was a general assignment reporter for the Evening News in London. He found that work to be very unchallenging, so he took a position as managing director of Everest Books and began writing fiction as an evening hobby. With the publication of Eye of the Needle in 1978 he became not only internationally known, but also wealthy. Follett’s next project is a third book in his Kingsbridge series. The first two were The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, and is to be released in 2017.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judity on July 29, 2012

This book is personal for me since I worked for Ross Perot's firm, EDS, in San Francisco during that time. I remember seeing the letters from co-workers in Iran posted on the computer room's bulletin board. I watched on TV the news about the escape of EDS people from Iran. How many bosses would help......more

Goodreads review by Brent on January 30, 2016

Follett steps away from his fiction thrillers to tell the real life story of two EDS employees working in Iran who were arrested and held in an Iranian jail without being charged with anything in 1979 prior to the Iranian hostage situation. I knew nothing about this till reading the book. I also gain......more

Goodreads review by Linda on April 30, 2022

Just saw a friend's review and remembered that I read this over thirty years ago. I don't remember much about it, but I remember liking it.......more

Goodreads review by Mihaela on February 11, 2023

Nu poți da suficient unei cărți care descrie fapte reale. În 1979,Iranul își forțează Șahul să abdice, iar țara devine un haos. În mijlocul acelui haos un procuror iranian "condamnă" la închisoare, fără nicio justificare, doi directori ai corporației EDS. Indignat de comportamentul iranienilor și de......more

Goodreads review by Xabi1990 on April 11, 2021

En 2011: Si bien se nota el buen hacer escribiendo del Follet -te obliga a leer el libro una vez lo empiezas-, es de lo más soso que he leído de este caballero. Merged review: En el 2011: Si bien se nota el buen hacer escribiendo del Follet -te obliga a leer el libro una vez lo empiezas-, es de lo más......more

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