Novel also won the Edgar Award the following year, 1979.įollett’s growth as a novelist was more evident in late Still all over the TV channels, all over the world,” he reminisces. Good plot with a sinister spy and a patriotic lover. Leads to the D-day drama at Normandy (Operation Fortitude), was also turned intoĪ movie by Richard Marquand (better knows as director of Return Of Zedi).įollett loved the cinematic adaptation. Last-minute dispatch to Hitler is frustrated by his patriotic British lover, and Of The Needle, a World War II fictional account about a Nazi spy whose “Obviously, the story about a selfless warrior would hold higher interestsĪmong the readers than the heroics of an avenging mortal.” Eye Personal cause, there is less admiration for him than a protagonist working forĪ larger cause, with no personal benefits involved,” says Follett,Įxplaining the learning curve between his two ‘Needle novels’.

“I realised that in a conflict, when a person is fighting for a Needle happened in 1978, springing him to the frontrunners of serious fiction Paper Money appeared, but they too were for the Hardy Boys-To-Men brigade,Įxcept that Follett bought some time to hone in his skills. Years, a few notable titles such as The Modigliani Scandal, Power Twins and What it takes,” says the 61-year-old story-spinner. “The Big Needle, for instance, wasn’t an elaborate novel.īut these early books taught me to become a better writer. “My early books were not substantial at all,” admitsįollett. A writer born out of a mangled car is no ordinary story, is it? Some even say he wrote it for some quick bucks to pay up his carīills. The drug lords in town-a banal plot with Bollywood heroics and predictable Needle is about a businessman who, after the death of his daughter, goes after Western (Roman or Gothic) architecture and the history of cathedrals. Pillars Of Earth and World Without Endboth incidentally structured around

From The Big Needle, a run-of-the-mill thriller in 1974, FollettĬame to redefine the fictional history a decade and half later with his classics

Now, with 35 years of writing experience behind him, Follett is ready to fell quite a few-starting with Fall Of Giants, the first part of his Century Trilogy. The Welsh gentleman, who picked stories from conflict zones and cathedrals, never showed any Davidian demeanour that could fell a Goliath. However, Ken Follett’s rise on the literary horizon did not follow a meteoric tail he built it up slowly, brick by another solid brick. His books are getting fatter in direct proportion to his purse and popularity as a fiction writer.

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