Edge of Eternity is the sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett"s extraordinary historical epic, The Century Trilogy. Throughout this series, Follett has followed the fortunes of five intertwined families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they make their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all, the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Presidential impeachment, revolution--and rock and roll. East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she"s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives...George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy"s Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events...