This book is the last of Ken Follett's 20th Century trilogy. “The Death of the Giants” and “Winter of the World” are already familiar to the reader. The action of the novel dates back to the second half of the 20th century and covers events taking place during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Prague Spring, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the era of perestroika and glasnost in the USSR. Its main characters are intellectuals and workers, aristocrats, military men and politicians of Russia, Germany, England and the USA, whose destinies are intertwined in an intricate and unpredictable pattern. Before their eyes, the world is changing again, an entire ideological system is collapsing, and their lives contain epoch-making events, personal tragedies, and quiet joys...