Works by
Ken Follett
(Aka Bernard L. Ross, Martin Martinsen, Simon Myles, and Zachary Stone)
(Writer)

Books

Writing as Writing as Bernard L. Ross

• Capricorn One (1978), based on the screenplay by Peter Hyams
  Capricorn One: the first manned flight to Mars. The countdown has already begun when the life support system fails so NASA plans a 30 billion-dollar fraud. The ship blasts off on schedule, but the live footage of the landing comes from a film set deep in the Arizona desert. When the capsule burns up on re-entry, NASA is left with three live astronauts who they want dead fast.

• Amok: King of Legend (1976)
  Harry staggered back – the tree had moved. In wave of horror, he understood what he was seeing. The 'tree' was a huge, fur-covered leg. He stared up into a huge, distorted, almost-human face. A great paw the size of an automobile swooped down. He had found the Amok, and the first thing to do was to get himself and Purity out of danger. But the beast had vanished. And so had the girl.

Writing as Ken Follett

Adult

• Whiteout (2004)
  As a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people converge on a remote family house. As the storm worsens, the emotional sparks-jealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, rivalries-crackle, desperate secrets are revealed, hidden traitors and unexpected heroes emerge.

• Jackdaws (2001)
  In his own bestselling tradition of Eye of the Needle and The Key to Rebecca , Ken Follett delivers a breathtaking novel of suspense set in the most dangerous days of World War II. He once again strikes Nazi pay dirt as a gang of all-female saboteurs go behind German lines.

• Code to Zero (2000)
  At Cape Canaveral, a countdown has begun in January 1958. On launch pad 26B sits Explorer 1, America's best hope to match the Soviet Sputnik and regain the lead in the race for the skies above. In the meanwhile, a man wakes to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station. And until he remembers who he is, he may be left powerless to save the launch of Explorer--and with it, America's future.

• The Hammer of Eden (1998)
  The FBI doesn't believe it. The Governor wants the problem to disappear. But agent Judy Maddox knows the threat is real: an extreme group of eco-terrorists has the means and the know-how to set off a massive earthquake of epic proportions. For California, time is running out.
  
  Now Maddox is scrambling to hunt down a petty criminal turned cult leader turned homicidal mastermind. Because Judy knows that the dying has already begun. And soon, the earth will violently shift, bolt, and shake down to its very core. . . .

• The Third Twin (1996)
  Through her research on twins and the genetic components of aggression, scientist Jeannie Ferrami makes a startling discovery. Using a restricted FBI database, she finds two young men who appear to be identical twins: Steve, a law student, and Dennis: a convicted murderer. Yet they were born on different days, to different mothers, in hospitals hundreds of miles apart.
  
  As Ferrami delves into their backgrounds, she unwittingly locks horns with some of the most powerful forces in America, including the university where she works, The New York Times, even the Pentagon.
  
  What secret has Ferrami uncovered? Can she trust her boss and mentor, or must she put her life in the hands of Steve Logan, the twin she finds herself falling in love with--even though he's surrounded by intrigue and suspicion? But one thing is certain: There are those who will stop at nothing to keep their chilling conspiracy in the shadows. . . .
  Movie (1997) Tom McLoughlin, director with Jason Gedrick, Kelly McGillis, and Larry Hagman.  Also released as Ken Follett's The Third Twin.

• A Place Called Freedom (1995)
  Sentenced to a life of misery in the Scottish coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: beautiful high-born Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell.
  
  In 1766, from the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship headed for the American colonies to a sprawling Virginia plantation, two restless young people, separated by politics and position, are bound by their search for a place called freedom....

• A Dangerous Fortune (1993)
  In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a small circle of boys. The drowning and its aftermath initiates a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many loves... From the exclusive men's club and brothels that cater to every dark desire of London's upper classes to the dazzling ballrooms and mahogany-paneled suites of the manipulators of the world's wealth, Ken Follett conjures up a stunning array of contrasts. This breathtaking novel portrays a family splintered by lust, bound by a shared legacy... men and women swept toward a perilous climax where greed, fed by the shocking truth of a boy's death, must be stopped, or not just one man's dreams, but those of a nation, will die...

• Night Over Water (1991)
  September 1939. England is at war with Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the world's most luxurious airliner-the legendary Pan Am clipper-takes off for its final flight to neutral America. Aboard are the cream of society and the dregs of humanity, all fleeing the war for reasons of their own...shadowed by a danger they do not know exists...and heading straight into a storm of violence, intrigue, and betrayal...

• Lie Down With Lions (1986)
  International bestseller set in Afghanistan...
  
  Miniseries (1994)  Jim Goddard, director with Timothy Dalton.  Also released as Red Eagle.  VHS

• The Man From St. Petersburg (1982)
  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...

• The Key to Rebecca (1980)
  His code name: "The Sphinx." His mission: to send Rommel's advancing army the secrets that would unlock the doors to Cairo...and the ultimate Nazi triumph in the war. And in all of Cairo, only two people could stop this brilliant and ruthless Nazi master agent. One was a down-on-his-luck English officer no one would listen to. The other was a young Jewish girl...
  Movie (1985) David Hemmings, director with Anthony Quayle, Cliff Robertson, David Soul, and Season Hubley.

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• Triple (1979)
  The world's balance of power is about to shift dangerously as the ultimate weapon nears completion in a secret facility in the heart of the desert. Across the globe, operatives from the great nations set a deadly game in motion, covertly maneuvering pawns and kings to achieve a frightening advantage—while terrorists and their hunters prepare for the contest's final bloody moves. And one man—a razor-sharp master of disguise, deceit, and triple-cross—must somehow do the impossible: steal 200 tons of uranium without any of the other players discovering the theft.
  
  The clock is ticking. And the price of failure is Apocalypse.

• The Heist of the Century (1978) with Rene Louis Maurice and others
  It took Spaggiari two months to hack into the Société Génerale bank in Nice. Security experts said the bank was impregnable. Spaggiari proved them wrong to the tune of 30,000,000 francs – the biggest bank job of all time. It was like a military operation – for months he led his pursuers a merry dance. When they finally had him at their mercy, he played his final stroke of genius...
  
  "This book was, and is, a nightmare. But it does merit some explanation, which you can find here." -- Ken Follett
  Also known as Under the Streets of Nice

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• Eye of the Needle (1978) - Winner 1979 Edgar Award for Best Novel
  One enemy spy knows the secret to the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin -- code name: "The Needle" -- who holds the key to ultimate Nazi victory.
  
  Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is beginning to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life.
  
  All will come to a terrifying conclusion in Ken Follett's unsurpassed and unforgettable masterwork of suspense, intrigue, and the dangerous machinations of the human heart.
  Movie (1981) Richard Marquand, director with Christopher Cazenove, Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Philip Martin Brown,  Stephen MacKenna.

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• The Bear Raid (1976)
  Industrial super-spy Piers Roper takes on a Wall Street raid. But who is calling the shots? Leaving the job to sharp young executive, Clayton, Roper lifts the lid on a savage Mafia scene, is framed for a brutal murder and is then betrayed by the beautiful Louise. Clayton reveals a secret Government deal that almost defeats Roper. But Roper is a winner. The dynamic sequel to The Shakeout.

• The Shakeout (1975)
  Roper is an industrial spy – a brutally ambitious and effective infiltrator, working for a man known only as "Palmer". He takes on a rival spy network to manipulate a major takeover. But he finds more than he bargained for among the bitter politics and infighting. And all his plans are threatened when one his chosen pawns, a beautiful and clever woman named Ann, break down his defenses and he falls in love.

• Hornet Flight (2002)
  It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande and discovers an astonishing sight that will change the momentum of the war. He must get word to England-except that he has no way to get there. He has only an old derelict Hornet Moth biplane rusting away in a ruined church: a plane so decrepit that it is unlikely ever to get off the ground...even if Harald knew how to fly it.

• Secret of Kellerman's Studio (1976, United Kingdom)
  Follett's first children's book. 

1. The Pillars of the Earth (1989) -- 2007 Oprah Book Club selection
   In 12th-century England, the building of a mighty Gothic cathedral signals the dawn of a new age. This majestic creation will bond clergy and kings, knights and peasants together in a story of toil, faith, ambition and rivalry. Set in twelfth-century England the novel is centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. A sweeping tale of the turbulent middle ages, The Pillars of the Earth is a masterpiece from one of the world's most popular authors.  See also Pillars of the Almighty

2. World Without End (2007)
   In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel
   
   World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroad of new ideas--about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human race--the Black Death.
   
   Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, World Without End breathes new life into the epic historical novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the top of his craft.

Ken Follett Non-fiction

Writing as Martin Martinsen
Ages 9-12

• The Mystery Hideout (1976) with Stephen Marchesi, Illustrator
  Exploring in an old unused film studio, two boys run across clues to a series of unsolved bank robberies.

• The Power Twins (1976) with Stephen Marchesi, Illustrator
  Uncle Grigorian, who turns out to be an alien, takes the Price twins and their cousin Tubs to the capital of the Galactic Empire, where they serve as unbiased arbitrators in the Worm War.

1. The Big Apple (1974)
   Apples loves money and beautiful women – and he has plenty of both. With his young daughter dying from a heroin overdose, Apples does not take on the local pusher – that's not his style. He takes on the top man, Mr Big H and his brutal, multi-million pound drug racket. Apples encounters violence, sex and intrigue in London and Marseilles in this knife-edge thriller of relentless revenge... That's his style.  Also known as The Big Needle (United Kingdom).

2. The Big Black (1974)
   A pornographic photograph of Apples and his lovers; a blackmail threat to a key Common Market negotiator. Two mysteries leading Apples, the relentless avenger, through a web of intrigue from Brussels to the New York empire of power-crazed Joshua Hind, The Big Black. Can the unstoppable Apples hoodwink his way into the Big Black's 13th floor lair before the crucial European vote? A pacy sequel to The Big Needle / The Big Hit.

3. The Big Hit (1975, United Kingdom)
   Winston Divine is a star – a brilliant, successful musician. Tycoons fight to manage him; girls and critics love him. So why is he acting so scared? He rings an old friend, Apples Carstairs, and dies minutes later. Apples wants to know why – and uncovers a web of bribery, blackmail and corruption extending throughout the music business. At its centre is a fat spider. Apples treads on the web. The spider pounces.

• Paper Money (1977)
  An explosive novel of high finance and underworld villainy from the grand master of international action and suspense.  In one suspenseful, action-packed day, fortunes change hands as the Evening Post's ambitious young reporter scrambles to crack the story. A suicidal junior minister, an avaricious tycoon, and a seasoned criminal with his team of tough "lads" all play their parts in a scheme that moves "paper money" around at a dizzying pace.

• The Modigliani Scandal (1976)
  A fabulous "lost masterpiece" becomes the ultimate prize for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away...

See also:

• Ken Follett: The Transformation of a Writer (1999) by Carlos Ramet
  In later years, Follett would begin to recognize that a "secret agent in enemy territory is probably the most reliable of all scenarios for a novel of suspense," and when he would begin to follow these more classic British thriller lines, and yet make them resonate with an American readership, his international success was assured.

• Ken Follett: A Critical Companion (1996) by Richard C. Turner
  Ken Follett had the purest of motives when he began writing fiction: he did it for the money. But after Eye of the Needle catapulted him to success and secured his reputation as a master of the spy thriller, he both built on that success with other spy thrillers and experimented equally successfully with other genres such as the family saga and the historical romance. This is the first full-length study of his work and it includes individual examinations of each of his major novels, from Eye of the Needle (1978) to A Place Called Freedom (1995), as well as his early novels. Following a chapter on Follett's life and career, Turner discusses in depth Follett's early novels and his one nonfiction work, On Wings of Eagles.
  
  A genre chapter examines Follett's use of historical settings and his use of the genres of spy thriller, saga, and historical romance in his novels. The rest of the study is devoted to an individual examination of each of his novels in turn, with subsections on plot, character, theme, point of view, and literary devices. Turner also offers an alternative critical approach to reading each novel, such as psychoanalytical, Marxist, or reader response, to give the reader another perspective from which to read and discuss it. A complete bibliography of Follett's fiction, general criticism and biographical sources, and listings of reviews of all the novels examined in the study completes the work. The only study of one of the best-selling writers today, who appeals to adults and young adults alike, this is a key purchase for schools and public libraries.