About the Author

Ken Follett burst into the book world with Eye of the Needle, an award-winning thriller and international bestseller. After several more successful thrillers, he surprised everyone with The Pillars of the Earth and its long-awaited sequel, World Without End, a national and international bestseller. Follett’s new, magnificent historical epic, the Century Trilogy, includes the bestselling Fall of Giants, Winter of the World, and Edge of Eternity. He lives in England with his wife, Barbara.

Reviews

Praise for Ken Follett and The Third Twin
 
"Follett infuses the book with an irresistible energy." —People
 
"A provocative, well-paced, and sensational biotech thriller." —Variety
 
"[A] page-turner . . . Follett is one of the smoothest suspense writers around, and The Third Twin will only enhance his reputation." —Chicago Tribune
 
"[Follett] is a master of the fast-paced plot." —The Washington Post

"Follett keeps the tension high." —The Oregonian

"His scenes whip along. And his ending is absolutely smashing." —The Virginian-Pilot

"Follett really knows how to tell a story." —The Atlanta Journal & Constitution

After three consecutive historical sagas (A Dangerous Fortune, etc.), Follett returns to the threshold of the 21st century with a provocative, well-paced and sensational biotech-thriller about the genetic manipulation of human embryos. Striving to prove that offspring genetically predisposed toward aggression can learn to sublimate their combative nature through childhood conditioning by socially responsible parents, a feisty and brilliant young university researcher, Jeannie Ferrami, develops software to identify identical twins who have been reared apart. When she stumbles across what seems to be an impossibility‘identical twins born to different mothers at separate locations on different dates, Jeannie runs into serious trouble. Pitted against her is, foremost, her own faculty mentor, Berrington Jones, a world-renowned authority on biotechnical engineering. In devious partnership with another scientist and a bigoted U.S. senator with presidential aspirations, Jones is co-founder of Genetico, a small company that pioneered biogenetic research. The trio is now in the final stages of a lucrative friendly buyout by a corporate giant‘and they don't take kindly to Jeannie's diggings. Multiples created by genetic manipulation aren't new to thrillers (e.g., Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil), but Follett puts a clever spin on the concept. And despite entwining outlandish plot strands of biotechnical skullduggery, a neo-Nazi candidate for president, academic politics and corporate greed with a steamy romance between Jeannie and one of the twins, the novel shines with the authenticity that's Follett's trademark as it explores the Internet and the mind-boggling data banks of personal statistics maintained by insurance empires, the Pentagon and the FBI. This isn't Follett's most sophisticated novel‘it's heavy on the melodrama and on sexual violence‘but its wicked narrative energy and catchy theme will likely propel it quickly onto the charts. Major ad/promo; simultaneous Random House audio and large-print editions; author satellite tour; (Nov.)

Praise for Ken Follett and The Third Twin

"Follett infuses the book with an irresistible energy." -People

"A provocative, well-paced, and sensational biotech thriller." -Variety

"[A] page-turner . . . Follett is one of the smoothest suspense writers around, and The Third Twin will only enhance his reputation." -Chicago Tribune

"[Follett] is a master of the fast-paced plot." -The Washington Post

"Follett keeps the tension high." -The Oregonian

"His scenes whip along. And his ending is absolutely smashing." -The Virginian-Pilot

"Follett really knows how to tell a story." -The Atlanta Journal & Constitution