- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher: New American Library (1979)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451087461
- ISBN-13: 978-0451087461
- ASIN: B0000EEPO0
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.7 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Hitler relies on The Needle, Jun 6 2009
By bernie "webviator" - Published on Amazon.com
Hitler must ultimately decide what threats are real and when. He relies on the one man he knows can accomplish the task of finding out the truth. So he sends to England "The Needle" a deep cover spy who is so confident that he does not let the intermediate folk get in his way. Any that do do not live to tell about it.First, they have to believe that he actually exists. Then they have to find him. It they can find him, can they stop him?
Yes, the story is intriguing. Yet it is the people interaction (loyalty, love, and credibility) and the attitude of "The Needle" that make the story. Ultimately, the question is "Will he succeed and what effect will this have on future generations of those who knew him?"
Eye of the Needle
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not one of Follett's best, April 22 2012
By Ash Ryan - Published on Amazon.com
Eye of the Needle was Ken Follett's breakout novel, and still a favorite among his readers who often criticize his later works as being formulaic, predictable, lacking character development, etc. This is strange, as those books are generally far superior to this one in those very respects.Of all the Follett novels I've read so far, this had by far the flattest characters. You basically learn everything you need to know about them in the first few pages, after which Follett develops them very little. The only real development later in the book is the Needle character's falling in love with the heroine, which is actually out of character for him and not adequately explained.
Eye of the Needle was also easily Follett's most formulaic novel of those I've read. For instance, it follows the classic formula of WWII thrillers of inserting a scene with Churchill expressing how the entire balance of the war hangs on the situation in the story, or with Hitler saying much the same. Follett does both...repeatedly. After several scenes of Hitler informing his council that if the Needle fails they will lose the war, and Churchill informing British intelligence officials that if they fail to STOP the Needle THEY will lose, I was just thinking, "Okay, I GET it already." Presumably, this is done to raise the stakes---but let's face it, we all already know how the war turned out anyway, don't we? So this rather backfired, and by the end I really couldn't have cared less about the supposed consequences for the war effort, and only wanted to know what the heroine's fate would be, despite Follett's apparent insecurities that that wouldn't be enough to carry the novel.
All that said, the characters, though a bit thinly drawn, were fairly interesting, and the basic story, though somewhat overblown, was pretty good. So on the whole, I'd say it might be worth reading, but I'd recommend giving some of his later stuff a chance over this. Three and a half stars.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Over hyped, Mar 17 2012
By David Creighton - Published on Amazon.com
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The book was rated as very good by the seller with a slightly bent and creased spine. The book is readable, and I think all of the pages are there, but it looks like it was an original from the 1970's. The pages are yellow/orange. Not just around the edges, but the whole page. I bought it as a gift, but will not send it.
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