Edge of Eternity

ALSO BY KEN FOLLETT

The Modigliani Scandal

Paper Money

Eye of the Needle

Triple

The Key to Rebecca

The Man from St. Petersburg

On Wings of Eagles

Lie Down with Lions

The Pillars of the Earth

Night over Water

A Dangerous Fortune

A Place Called Freedom

The Third Twin

The Hammer of Eden

Code to Zero

Jackdaws

Hornet Flight

Whiteout

World Without End

Fall of Giants

Winter of the World

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Follett, Ken.

Edge of eternity / Ken Follett.

pages cm—(Century trilogy; book three)

ISBN 978-0-698-16057-6

1. World politics—1945–1989—Fiction. 2. Political fiction. I. Title.

PR6056.O45E46 2014 823'.914—dc23 2014005306

Family tree illustrations by Dave Hopkins

Map copyright © by David Atkinson, Hand Made Maps Ltd.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

To all the freedom fighters,

especially Barbara

American

DEWAR FAMILY

Cameron Dewar

Ursula “Beep” Dewar, his sister

Woody Dewar, his father

Bella Dewar, his mother

PESHKOV-JAKES FAMILY

George Jakes

Jacky Jakes, his mother

Greg Peshkov, his father

Lev Peshkov, his grandfather

Marga, his grandmother

MARQUAND FAMILY

Verena Marquand

Percy Marquand, her father

Babe Lee, her mother

CIA

Florence Geary

Tony Savino

Tim Tedder, semiretired

Keith Dorset

OTHERS

Maria Summers

Joseph Hugo, FBI

Larry Mawhinney, Pentagon

Nelly Fordham, old flame of Greg Peshkov

Dennis Wilson, aide to Bobby Kennedy

Skip Dickerson, aide to Lyndon Johnson

Leopold “Lee” Montgomery, reporter

Herb Gould, television journalist on
This Day

Suzy Cannon, gossip reporter

Frank Lindeman, television network owner

REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS

John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth U.S. president

Jackie, his wife

Bobby Kennedy, his brother

Dave Powers, assistant to President Kennedy

Pierre Salinger, President Kennedy's press officer

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Lyndon B. Johnson, thirty-sixth U.S. president

Richard Nixon, thirty-seventh U.S. president

Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth U.S. president

Ronald Reagan, fortieth U.S. president

George H. W. Bush, forty-first U.S. president

British

LECKWITH-WILLIAMS FAMILY

Dave Williams

Evie Williams, his sister

Daisy Williams, his mother

Lloyd Williams, M.P., his father

Eth Leckwith, Dave's grandmother

MURRAY FAMILY

Jasper Murray

Anna Murray, his sister

Eva Murray, his mother

MUSICIANS IN THE GUARDSMEN AND PLUM NELLIE

Lenny, Dave Williams's cousin

Lew, drummer

Buzz, bass player

Geoffrey, lead guitarist

OTHERS

Earl Fitzherbert, called Fitz

Sam Cakebread, friend of Jasper Murray

Byron Chesterfield (real name Brian Chesnowitz), music agent

Hank Remington (real name Harry Riley), pop star

Eric Chapman, record company executive

German

FRANCK FAMILY

Rebecca Hoffmann

Carla Franck, Rebecca's adoptive mother

Werner Franck, Rebecca's adoptive father

Walli Franck, son of Carla

Lili Franck, daughter of Werner and Carla

Maud von Ulrich, née Fitzherbert, Carla's mother

Hans Hoffmann, Rebecca's husband

OTHERS

Bernd Held, schoolteacher

Karolin Koontz, folksinger

Odo Vossler, clergyman

REAL HISTORICAL PEOPLE

Walter Ulbricht, first secretary of the Socialist Unity Party (Communist)

Erich Honecker, Ulbricht's successor

Egon Krenz, successor to Honecker

Polish

Stanislaw “Staz” Pawlak, army officer

Lidka, girlfriend of Cam Dewar

Danuta Gorski, Solidarity activist

REAL HISTORICAL PEOPLE

Anna Walentynowicz, crane driver

Lech Wałesa, leader of the trade union Solidarity

General Jaruzelski, prime minister

Russian

DVORKIN-PESHKOV FAMILY

Tanya Dvorkin, journalist

Dimka Dvorkin, Kremlin aide, Tanya's twin brother

Anya Dvorkin, their mother

Grigori Peshkov, their grandfather

Katerina Peshkov, their grandmother

Vladimir, always called Volodya, their uncle

Zoya, Volodya's wife

Nina, Dimka's girlfriend

OTHERS

Daniil Antonov, features editor at TASS

Pyotr Opotkin, features editor in chief

Vasili Yenkov, dissident

Natalya Smotrov, official in the Foreign Ministry

Nik Smotrov, Natalya's husband

Yevgeny Filipov, aide to Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky

Vera Pletner, Dimka's secretary

Valentin, Dimka's friend

Marshal Mikhail Pushnoy

REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS

Nikita Sergeyevitch Khrushchev, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Andrei Gromyko, foreign minister under Khrushchev

Rodion Malinovsky, defense minister under Khrushchev

Alexei Kosygin, chairman of the Council of Ministers

Leonid Brezhnev, Khrushchev's successor

Yuri Andropov, successor to Brezhnev

Konstantin Chernenko, successor to Andropov

Mikhail Gorbachev, successor to Chernenko

Other Nations

Paz Oliva, Cuban general

Frederik Bíró, Hungarian politician

Enok Andersen, Danish accountant