Ken Follett - Edge of Eternity

KEN FOLLETT

EDGE OF ETERNITY

MACMILLAN

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, semi-retired

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, 35th US President

Jackie, his wife

Bobby Kennedy, his brother

Dave Powers, assistant to President Kennedy

Pierre Salinger, President Kennedys press officer

Revd Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th US President

Richard Nixon, 37th US President

Jimmy Carter, 39th US President

Ronald Reagan, 40th US President

George H. W. Bush, 41st US President

British

Leckwith-Williams Family

Dave Williams

Evie Williams, his sister

Daisy Williams, his mother

Lloyd Williams, MP, his father

Ethel Leckwith (ne Williams), Daves grandmother

Murray Family

Jasper Murray

Anna Murray, his sister

Eva Murray, his mother

Musicians in the Guardsmen and Plum Nellie

Lenny, Dave Williamss 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, Rebeccas adoptive mother

Werner Franck, Rebeccas adoptive father

Walli Franck, son of Carla

Lili Franck, daughter of Werner and Carla

Maud von Ulrich (ne Lady Maud Fitzherbert), Carlas mother

Hans Hoffmann, Rebeccas husband

Others

Bernd Held, schoolteacher

Karolin Koontz, folk singer

Odo Vossler, clergyman

Real Historical Characters

Walter Ulbricht, First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party (Communist)

Erich Honecker, Ulbrichts successor

Egon Krenz, successor to Honecker

Polish

Stanislaw Staz Pawlak, army officer

Lidka, girlfriend of Cam Dewar

Danuta Gorski, Solidarity activist

Real Historical Characters

Anna Walentynowicz, crane driver

Lech Wasa, leader of the trade union Solidarity

General Jaruzelski, Prime Minister

Russian

Dvorkin-Peshkov Family

Tania Dvorkin, journalist

Dimka Dvorkin, Kremlin aide, Tanias twin brother

Nina, Dimkas girlfriend

Anya Dvorkin, their mother

Grigori Peshkov, their grandfather

Katerina Peshkov, their grandmother

Vladimir, always called Volodya, their uncle

Zoya, Volodyas wife

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, Natalyas husband

Yevgeny Filipov, aide to Defence Minister Rodion Malinovsky

Vera Pletner, Dimkas secretary

Valentin, Dimkas 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, Defence Minister under Khrushchev

Alexei Kosygin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers

Leonid Brezhnev, Khrushchevs successor

Yuri Andropov, successor to Brezhnev

Konstantin Chernenko, successor to Andropov

Mikhail Gorbachev, successor to Chernenko

Other Nations

Paz Oliva, Cuban general

Frederik Br, Hungarian politician

Enok Andersen, Danish accountant

Rebecca Hoffmann was summoned by the secret police on a rainy Monday in 1961.

It began as an ordinary morning. Her husband drove her to work in his tan Trabant 500. The graceful old streets of central Berlin still had gaps from wartime bombing, except where new concrete buildings stood up like ill-matched false teeth. Hans was thinking about his job as he drove. The courts serve the judges, the lawyers, the police, the government everyone except the victims of crime, he said. This is to be expected in Western capitalist countries, but under Communism the courts ought surely to serve the people. My colleagues dont seem to realize that. Hans worked for the Ministry of Justice.

Weve been married almost a year, and Ive known you for two, but Ive never met one of your colleagues, Rebecca said.

They would bore you, he said immediately. Theyre all lawyers.

Any women among them?

No. Not in my section, anyway. Hanss job was administration: appointing judges, scheduling trials, managing courthouses.

Id like to meet them, all the same.

Hans was a strong man who had learned to rein himself in. Watching him, Rebecca saw in his eyes a familiar flash of anger at her insistence. He controlled it by an effort of will. Ill arrange something, he said. Perhaps well all go to a bar one evening.

Hans had been the first man Rebecca had met who matched up to her father. He was confident and authoritative, but he always listened to her. He had a good job not many people had a car of their own in East Germany and men who worked in the government were usually hard-line Communists, but Hans, surprisingly, shared Rebeccas political scepticism. Like her father he was tall, handsome and well dressed. He was the man she had been waiting for.