Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The nCentury Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-nAmerican, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through nthe world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, nand the struggle for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams nenters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American nlaw student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow nWilson's White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev nPeshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their nplan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and nrevolution... Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert nherself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London... n nThese characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall nof Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a npalace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly nresearched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic. n nIn future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of nthe twentieth century, changing themselves-and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world nwe thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.

Ken Follett was only twenty-seven when he wrote the award-winning EYE OF THE NEEDLE, which became an international bestseller. His celebrated PILLARS OF THE EARTH was voted into the top 100 of Britain's best-loved books in the BBC's the Big Read and the sequel, WORLD WITHOUT END, will be published in Autumn 2007. He has since written several equally successful novels including, most recently, WHITEOUT. He is also the author of non-fiction bestseller ON WINGS OF EAGLES. He lives with his family in London and Hertfordshire.