Edge of Eternity is the epic, final novel in Ken Follett's captivating and huge ly ambitious Century trilogy. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giant s and Winter of the World , this is an irresistible and spellbinding epic abo ut the fight for personal freedom set during the Cold War. A FIGHT AGAINST IN JUSTICE 1961, and in the United States George Jakes, a bright young lawyer in t he Kennedy administration and fierce supporter of the civil rights movement, boa rds a Greyhound bus in Washington with Verena, an employee of Martin Luther King whom he is in love with, to protest against segregation. A RISING TIDE OF DA NGER In East Germany, teacher Rebecca Hoffmann finds her entire life has been a lie as she is targeted by the secret police, even as her younger brother, Walli , dreams of escape across the Berlin Wall to Britain. In Russia, activist Tania Dvorkin narrowly evades capture for producing an illegal news-sheet, her actions all the more perilous because her brother, Dimka, is an emerging star of the Co mmunist Party. A COLD WAR THAT COULD ELIMINATE THE WORLD FOREVER In a sweepi ng tale that began in 1911, the descendants of five families will now find their true destiny as they fight for their individual freedom in a world facing the m ightiest clash of superpowers it has ever seen.