The Key to Rebecca
by: Ken Follett
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Set in North Africa, summer 1942, during Rommel's campaign against the British. This is the story of Alex Wolff, master spy, who treks across the Sahara and covertly enters the plot-ridden streets of wartime Cairo. And of Major Vandam, the British officer who is on Wolff's trail, sworn to destroy him. Wolff's mission is to steal British military plans and send them to Rommel, using a code whose key is buried in the pages of Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca. As Rommel's troops come closer to victory, Vandam edges closer to Wolff and the crucial key. There are incredible chase scenes: a motorcycle hurtling through blacked-out Cairo; the flash of a knife, a gush of hot blood, and the fleeting shadow of an escaping assassin; a harrowing race against death and a speeding train. Follett builds tension and suspense to a screaming pitch as he follows the adversaries across the internal desert to a confrontation as startling as it is explosive.
Set in North Africa, summer 1942, during Rommel's campaign against the British. This is the story of Alex Wolff, master spy, who treks across the Sahara and covertly enters the plot-ridden streets of wartime Cairo. And of Major Vandam, the British officer who is on Wolff's trail, sworn to destroy him. Wolff's mission is to steal British military plans and send them to Rommel, using a code whose key is buried in the pages of Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca. As Rommel's troops come closer to victory, Vandam edges closer to Wolff and the crucial key. There are incredible chase scenes: a motorcycle hurtling through blacked-out Cairo; the flash of a knife, a gush of hot blood, and the fleeting shadow of an escaping assassin; a harrowing race against death and a speeding train. Follett builds tension and suspense to a screaming pitch as he follows the adversaries across the internal desert to a confrontation as startling as it is explosive.
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Rating: - Solid fluff.
Ken Follett's "The Key To Rebecca" is a thriller told in parallel thread following the duplicitous, clandestine, and nefarious activities German-Arab spy Wolff, and his gallant Dorset-English pursuer Vandeman in early 1940's Egypt, as Erwin "The Desert Fox" Rommell's campaign to take Cairo unfolds.
Follett's historical setting serves as an excellent background, and the on-the-ground details of like in war-time Egypt provide welcome exotic atmosphere. While Follett's style is too lean ... Read More
Rating: - Good Read if you like historical suspence
The book was captivating from the begining.While parts of the story bend history (it is fiction), the events are believeable and the reader can relate to the characters.If you liked Pillars of the Earth and expect this book to be similiar, you will be disappointed.
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- awesome!!!
This is excellent work by Follett. Besides the sensuality, deceit and action the setting in Egypt is very interesting. Follett brilliantly blends all these qualities into a sheer page-turner!
Rating: - The Key to Rebecca
All of the books written by Ken Follett are wonderful.and this book is wonderful.You will not be sorry if you purchase it.
Rating: - The Key to Good Reading.....Follett
Having been consumed with the masterful writing in Follett's Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, I've started revisiting all his novels. Although written over 25 years ago about a war that took place over 65 years ago, Follett's insightful characterisations hold up remarkably well.The master storyteller pulls you in and weaves a web of intrigue that will keep you involved until the final pages. Great read.
- Solid fluff.Ken Follett's "The Key To Rebecca" is a thriller told in parallel thread following the duplicitous, clandestine, and nefarious activities German-Arab spy Wolff, and his gallant Dorset-English pursuer Vandeman in early 1940's Egypt, as Erwin "The Desert Fox" Rommell's campaign to take Cairo unfolds.
Follett's historical setting serves as an excellent background, and the on-the-ground details of like in war-time Egypt provide welcome exotic atmosphere. While Follett's style is too lean ... Read More
- Good Read if you like historical suspenceThe book was captivating from the begining.While parts of the story bend history (it is fiction), the events are believeable and the reader can relate to the characters.If you liked Pillars of the Earth and expect this book to be similiar, you will be disappointed.
- awesome!!!This is excellent work by Follett. Besides the sensuality, deceit and action the setting in Egypt is very interesting. Follett brilliantly blends all these qualities into a sheer page-turner!
- The Key to RebeccaAll of the books written by Ken Follett are wonderful.and this book is wonderful.You will not be sorry if you purchase it.
- The Key to Good Reading.....FollettHaving been consumed with the masterful writing in Follett's Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, I've started revisiting all his novels. Although written over 25 years ago about a war that took place over 65 years ago, Follett's insightful characterisations hold up remarkably well.The master storyteller pulls you in and weaves a web of intrigue that will keep you involved until the final pages. Great read.
