The Man from St. Petersburg, Ken Follett
The Man from St. Petersburg, Ken Follett
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The Man from St. Petersburg

Author: Ken Follett

Narrator: Richard Armitage

Unabridged: 12 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 02/09/2021

Synopsis

"Ken Follett has done it once more . . . goes down with the ease and impact of a well-prepared martini." —New York Times Book Review

His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, and the young Winston Churchill himself. These odds would have stopped any man in the world—except the man from St. Petersburg.

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 Jim

My first Ken Follett. Although no pirates are involved, the word “swashbuckling” comes to mind. The story is set in London in the early 1900’s. It’s fiction, but enough real-life characters and events are involved that is has an aura of a historical novel. A Russian anarchist is trying to assassinate......more

Goodreads review by Dana

How can I root for an assassin? Ken Follett has always been a personal favorite of mine. I love the way he mixes fiction with reality in all of his books, whether he’s chosen to write about the Cold War or the lead-up to World War 1 or 2. The writing style is never something I complain about with Fol......more

Goodreads review by Lewis

I read this many years ago, and have now re-read it. It is a great thriller with an unusual twist: it may be that you consider the assassin (the man from St. Petersburg) to be the good guy with higher morals than those (the Brits) opposing him. The action sequences are superb, and the "teaching narr......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

This was a fascinating, invigorating read. Set in post Victorian era, the narrative was incredibly immersive in the time period, building up the setting and characters layer by careful layer. While the pacing increased very gradually for the first half of the book, it never lost my attention, but di......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

Ken Follett spares not an ounce of genius in bringing his characters to life and weaving them together in electrifying narrative. His artistry is one that burdens the reader with sorting the protagonists from the antagonists, enriching each character's complexion and back story with such brio that y......more

Quotes

"Ken Follett has done it once more . . . goes down with the ease and impact of a well-prepared martini." —The New York Times Book Review

"Eerily plausible . . . one of Follett's finest." —Time

"A grabber with a pace that never flags." —Cosmopolitan

"Builds with such intensity that your heart races with pounding anticipation and sticks in your throat as the climactic moments near." —Chattanooga Times-Free Press 

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