The Man from St. Petersburg - Hardcover

Follett, Ken

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688011500 ISBN 13: 9780688011505

Publisher: William Morrow & Company, 1982

Synopsis

Just before World War I, two men--one, a noble Russian emissary, the other, a denizen of Europe's underground--set in motion a concatenation of world-shaking, ultimately fatal events

About this title

About the Author

Ken Follett is one of the world’s best-loved authors, selling more than 160 million copies of his thirty books. Follett’s first bestseller was Eye of the Needle, a spy story set in the Second World War. 

In 1989 The Pillars of the Earth was published, and has since become the author’s most successful novel. It reached number one on bestseller lists around the world and was an Oprah’s Book Club pick.
 
Its sequels, World Without End and A Column of Fire, proved equally popular, and the Kingsbridge series has sold 38 million copies worldwide.
 
Follett lives in Hertfordshire, England, with his wife Barbara. Between them they have five children, six grandchildren, and three Labradors. 

Review

"Ken Follett has done it once more . . . goes down with the ease and impact of a well-prepared martini." —The New York Times Book Review

"Eerily plausible . . . one of Follett's finest." —Time

"A grabber with a pace that never flags." —Cosmopolitan

"Builds with such intensity that your heart races with pounding anticipation and sticks in your throat as the climactic moments near." —Chattanooga Times-Free Press 
From the Paperback edition.

Edition details

• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0688011500
• ISBN 13: 9780688011505
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 323