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Edge of Eternity
by Ken Follett
Book 3 in the The Century Trilogy series.
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Beginning in 1961, the final volume follows descendants of the five families on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In East Germany, Rebecca Hoffmann discovers the reach of the secret police as the Berlin Wall divides families and careers. In the United States, George Jakes joins the civil-rights struggle and enters national politics, while characters in Moscow, London and Berlin work inside systems shaped by nuclear rivalry and ideological surveillance.
The narrative moves through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassinations and protest movements of the 1960s, the Vietnam War and the cultural conflicts of the following decades. It concludes with reform in the Soviet bloc and the fall of the Berlin Wall, completing the trilogy’s account of how political systems alter private loyalties across generations.
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