Follet does an excellent job of keeping you in suspense on how it will happen. Great twist on history - could be real or not - who knows. Loved it. ( )

This is a full blown spy mystery. There is a good solid plot that keeps you on the edge of your seat. The book also gives you an insight to the life and times, folk experienced during WW 2. What a good read! ( )

I read this book till 1 am while I was on holiday without the kids, which should tell you how unputdownable it was - I could have been sound asleep! And my heart was racing by the end. It's the first Ken Follett I've read.

Far-fetched plot? Yes. Believable? Somehow. (I realise the two things should be contradictory.) The main character, Die Nagel, is a German agent living in England during WW2. Without wanting to give too much away, he tries hard to get information home to Germany about plans for D-Day. He's nasty, but likable. The usual kind of spy things happen. There are plenty of big picture military and political bits, which I really enjoyed. The romantic stuff was harder to believe, but still good enough that I couldn't stop reading by that stage in the book. I read Agent Zig-Zag earlier this year, and this fitted in well with that book. I gave it 4 1/2 stars (for its genre, blah blah - any book that keeps me awake that late gets lots of stars...) ( )

Thanks to Ken Follett and his eye of the needle that got me into the habit of reading. It is an absolute page turner, though the climax is pretty cliched the way he takes one through it is really good. His German spies are better than British spies. ( )

WW2 British spy novel ( )