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Published by New American Library, 2013
ISBN 10: 0451419243ISBN 13: 9780451419248
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Published by Penguin Books, 2014
ISBN 10: 0451468228ISBN 13: 9780451468222
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Published by Berkley, 2012
ISBN 10: 0525952926ISBN 13: 9780525952923
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Published by Penguin Audio, 2012
ISBN 10: 1611761182ISBN 13: 9781611761184
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Published by Signet, 2013
ISBN 10: 0451419561ISBN 13: 9780451419569
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Published by Penguin Books, 2012
ISBN 10: 0451418433ISBN 13: 9780451418432
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Published by Penguin Audio, 2012
ISBN 10: 1611761174ISBN 13: 9781611761177
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Published by Debolsillo, 2019
ISBN 10: 8490328153ISBN 13: 9788490328156
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Published by Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 0330460609ISBN 13: 9780330460606
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother's formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who soon learns for himself the brutal reality of Nazism. He also encounters a group of Germans resolved to oppose Hitler - but are they willing to go so far as to betray their country? Such people are closely watched by Volodya, a Russian with a bright future in Red Army Intelligence. The international clash of military power and personal beliefs that ensues will sweep over them all as it rages from Cable Street in London's East End to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, from Spain to Stalingrad, from Dresden to Hiroshima. At Cambridge Lloyd is irresistibly drawn to dazzling American socialite Daisy Peshkov, who represents everything his left-wing family despise. But Daisy is more interested in aristocratic Boy Fitzherbert - amateur pilot, party lover and leading light of the British Union of Fascists. Back in Berlin, Carla worships golden boy Werner from afar. But nothing will work out the way they expect as their lives and the hopes of the world are smashed by the greatest and cruellest war in the history of the human race. Winter of the World is the second novel in Ken Follett's uniquely ambitious and deeply satisfying trilogy 'The Century'. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Edge of Eternity, this is a magnificent, spellbinding epic of global conflict and personal drama. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Turtleback Books, 2014
ISBN 10: 0606360808ISBN 13: 9780606360807
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Published by Penguin Audio, 2015
ISBN 10: 0147524199ISBN 13: 9780147524195
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Published by Macmillan, 2012
ISBN 10: 0230763448ISBN 13: 9780230763449
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Published by PAN MACMILLAN, 2013
ISBN 10: 1447231139ISBN 13: 9781447231134
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Published by PAN MACMILLAN, 2018
ISBN 10: 1509848525ISBN 13: 9781509848522
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Published by MacMillan, 2012
ISBN 10: 0230710107ISBN 13: 9780230710108
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Published by Le Livre De Poche, 2020
ISBN 10: 2253125962ISBN 13: 9782253125969
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Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. EDITEUR: Librairie Générale Française (lgf) coll. Le Livre De Poche n°33162. DEPOT LEGAL: octobre 2020. TITRE: Le siècle t.2: L'hiver du monde (winter of the world). AUTEUR: Ken Follett. RELIURE: 180x110x45mm 1068p, couverture souple glacée illustrée. LANGUE: en français. CLASSIFICATION DEWEY: 823 english fiction.
Published by Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, London, 1995
ISBN 10: 0333583205ISBN 13: 9780333583203
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A novel of love, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In Scotland, in the winter of 1767, Lizzie Hallim helps a slave escape. From that moment on, in the Old World and the New, their destinies become irrevocably entwined. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Signet Book, New York, NY, 2007
ISBN 10: 0451166892ISBN 13: 9780451166890
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Mass-market paperback. Reprint. Later printing. Mass market paperback. Glued binding. 983, [5] p. Ken Follett, internationally-acclaimed master of split-second suspense, author of six #1 bestsellers, reaches beyond the expected to achieve his most brilliant and remarkable novel. The epic story of the building of a cathedral in 12th century England and the lives of the people entwined with it and each other is a sensuous, enduring narrative, and a gripping tale of faith, ambition, bloodshed and betrayal. From Wikipedia: "Kenneth Martin "Ken" Follett (born 5 June 1949) is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels. He has sold more than 130 million copies of his works. Many of his books have reached the number 1 ranking on the New York Times best-seller list, including Fall of Giants, The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple, Winter of the World, and World Without End. Follett was born on 5 June 1949 in Cardiff, Wales. He was the first child of Martin Follett, a tax inspector, and Lavinia (Veenie) Follett, who went on to have three more children. Barred from watching movies and television by his Plymouth Brethren parents, he developed an early interest in reading but remained an indifferent student until he entered his teens. His family moved to London when he was ten years old, and he began applying himself to his studies at Harrow Weald Grammar School and Poole Technical College. He won admission in 1967 to University College London, where he studied philosophy and became involved in centre-left politics. He married his first wife, Mary, in 1968, and their son Emanuele was born in the same year. After graduation in the autumn of 1970, Follett took a three-month post-graduate course in journalism and went to work as a trainee reporter in Cardiff on the South Wales Echo. After three years in Cardiff, he returned to London as a general-assignment reporter for the Evening News. Finding the work unchallenging, he eventually left journalism for publishing and became, by the late 1970s, deputy managing director of the small London publisher Everest Books. He also began writing fiction during evenings and weekends as a hobby. Later, he said he began writing books when he needed extra money to fix his car, and the publisher's advance a fellow journalist had been paid for a thriller was the sum required for the repairs. Success came gradually at first, but the publication of Eye of the Needle in 1978 made him both wealthy and internationally famous. Each of Follett's subsequent novels has also become a best-seller, ranking high on the New York Times Best Seller list; a number have been adapted for the screen. Ken Follett has written 29 books in the past 35 years. The first five best-sellers were spy thrillers: Eye of the Needle (1978), Triple (1979), The Key to Rebecca (1980), The Man from St Petersburg (1982) and Lie Down with Lions (1986). On Wings of Eagles (1983), was the true story of how two of Ross Perot s employees were rescued from Iran during the revolution of 1979. He then surprised readers by radically changing course with The Pillars of the Earth (1989), a novel about building a cathedral in the Middle Ages. It received rave reviews and was on the New York Times best-seller list for 18 weeks. It also topped best-seller lists in Canada, Britain and Italy, and was on the German best-seller list for six years. It has sold 18 million copies so far. The next three novels, Night Over Water (1991), A Dangerous Fortune (1993) and A Place Called Freedom (1995) were more historical than thriller, but he returned to the thriller genre with The Third Twin (1996) which in the Publishing Trends annual survey of international fiction best-sellers for 1997 was ranked no. 2 worldwide, after John Grisham's The Partner. His next work, The Hammer of Eden (1998) was another contemporary suspense story followed by a cold war thriller Code to Zero (2000). Follett returned to the WWII era with his next two novels, Jackdaws (2001), a World War II thriller about a group of women par.
Published by Thorndike Press Large Print, 2014
ISBN 10: 1410475506ISBN 13: 9781410475503
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Published by Penguin Books, 2014
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Mass market paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Printing [stated]. xvii, [3], 1112, [2] pages. Map Cast of Characters. Chart of Families. This is Book Three of the Century Trilogy. Cover has some wear and soiling. Kenneth Martin "Ken" Follett (born 5 June 1949) is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels who has sold more than 150 million copies of his works. Many of his books have reached number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list, including Edge of Eternity, Fall of Giants, A Dangerous Fortune, The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple, Winter of the World, and World Without End. Century trilogy ; Follett's next three novels, Fall of Giants, Winter of the World and Edge of Eternity, make up the Century trilogy. Fall of Giants (2010) followed the fates of five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English and Welsh - as they moved through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the struggle for women's suffrage. Fall of Giants, published simultaneously in 14 countries, was internationally popular and topped several bestseller lists. Winter of the World (2012) picks up where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, to the explosions of the American and Soviet atom bombs and the beginning of the long Cold War. The final novel in the 'Century' trilogy, Edge of Eternity, which follows those families through the events of the last half of the XXth century, was published on 16 September 2014. Like the previous two books, it chronicles the lives of five families through the Cold war and civil-rights movements.Edge of Eternity is a historical and family saga novel by Welsh-born author Ken Follett, published in 2014. It is the third book in the Century Trilogy, after Fall of Giants and Winter of the World.The novel tells the story of the third generation of families developed in the first two novels and located in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Russia during the height of the Cold War. The novel's characters become involved in a number of the most important global events during the period, including the Cuban Missile Crisis, the British Invasion, the J.F.K. Administration, Watergate, and the Civil Rights Movement.The story follows characters from Germany, Britain, the USA and the Soviet Union, who become linked by events from just before the construction of the Berlin wall in 1961 to that wall's demise in 1989 (and in an epilogue to the night of Barack Obama's election in 2008). Once again, the major characters are the children of the characters who were seen in the first two novels.The novel covers a range of world events during the period, often from multiple points of view. These include the civil rights movement in the US, the Cuban Missile crisis, the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the Vietnam War, Watergate and the Solidarity movement.The novel also covers a range of personal events. A number of the characters form a successful rock band which performs and travels throughout the novel. Others tour the world as reporters or aides to major political figures. Characters in the US work (under six presidents) to overcome prejudice and discrimination and to win the Cold War. Characters in East Berlin and Moscow work (under five different Soviet leaders), subtly at first and then more overtly, to bring about the start of the fall of Communism. And a family split apart by the construction of the Berlin wall is eventually reunited the night that wall comes down.
ISBN 10: 0525953639ISBN 13: 9780525953630
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Published by Pan/Macmillan, 2013., 2013
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Published by Readers Digest, 1999
ISBN 10: 0330375822ISBN 13: 9780330375825
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Hammer of Eden- Ken Follett "A man-made earthquake? Death and destruction on a massive scale? Who would believe such a thing is possible? But one FBI agent is taking the threat seriously. The question now is, Can she stop the Hammer of Eden before it's too late?" Welcome to the World, Baby Girl- Fannie Flagg In a more innocent time the glowing light of the small-town radio tower was a beacon of neighborliness and comfort. That light seems like a quaint relic in these days of tabloid news and hype. Yet it exerts a mysterious pull on one ambitious woman who finds herself torn between the bright lights of success and the warm beacon of home." Stonewal's Cold- robert J. Mrazek Shenandoah Valley, 1864. The final, fierce winter of the Civil War. One young man has a desperate scheme for helping General Robert E. Lee and his tattered band of soldiers. But can he pull it off in an uncivilized land where laws no longer apply and death lurks around every corner?" River's End- Nora Roberts "For Olivia MacBride the forest is a sanctuary- a refuge where she can lock herself away from the terrible secrets of the past. Now a man who is haunted by the same past is determined to uncover the truth. Along the way he may even open Olivia's heart." Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.
Published by Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 0230763812ISBN 13: 9780230763814
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Winter of the World is the second novel in Ken Follett's uniquely ambitious and deeply satisfying The Century Trilogy. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Edge of Eternity, this is a magnificent, spellbinding epic of global conflict and personal drama. Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother's formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who soon learns for himself the brutal reality of Nazism. He also encounters a group of Germans resolved to oppose Hitler - but are they willing to go so far as to betray their country? Such people are closely watched by Volodya, a Russian with a bright future in Red Army Intelligence. The international clash of military power and personal beliefs that ensues will sweep over them all as it rages from Cable Street in London's East End to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, from Spain to Stalingrad, from Dresden to Hiroshima. At Cambridge, Lloyd is irresistibly drawn to dazzling American socialite Daisy Peshkov, who represents everything his left-wing family despise. But Daisy is more interested in aristocratic Boy Fitzherbert - amateur pilot, party lover and leading light of the British Union of Fascists. Back in Berlin, Carla worships golden boy Werner from afar. But nothing will work out the way they expect as their lives and the hopes of the world are smashed by the greatest and cruellest war in the history of the human race. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Little, Brown Book Group, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 0349145067ISBN 13: 9780349145068
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From the acclaimed author of Darktown comes the most visionary crime novel since Minority Report.'It's rare to find a thriller with such a fantastic and original concept. I was gripped' --- Anthony HorowitzIn a world where a global event has blinded every person on the planet, one detective seeks a murderer who should not, cannot, exist.Seven years ago, everyone in the world went blind in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people's brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to manipulate it and change what people see?Homicide detective Mark Owens has been on the force since before The Blinding. When a scientist is murdered, and the only witness insists the killer was blacked out of her vision, Owens doesn't believe her - until a similar murder happens in front of him. With suspects ranging from tech billionaires to anti-modernity cultists, Owens must conduct an investigation in which he can't even trust his own eyes.PRAISE FOR THOMAS MULLEN'Terrific entertainment' - Stephen King'Superb' - Ken Follett'Magnificent and shocking' - Sunday Times'Written with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you' - New York Times'Fascinating, grim and unsettling' - Guardian'A terrific story' - The Times'From the very first page of Darktown, I was stunned, mesmerized' - Attica Locke The groundbreaking new crime novel by multi-award-nominated author Thomas Mullen, for fans of The Last by Hanna Jameson, The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, The Last Policeman by Ben Winters and Minority Report Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Macmillan
ISBN 10: 0230770169ISBN 13: 9780230770164
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Published by Pan Macmillan, London, 2018
ISBN 10: 1509848517ISBN 13: 9781509848515
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The first in Ken Follett's bestselling Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women.A world in chaos.1911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king. The escalating arms race between the empire nations will put not only the king but this young boy in grave danger.A terrible war.Billy's family is inextricably linked with the Fitzherberts, the aristocratic owners of the coal mine where he works. And when Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London, their destiny also becomes entangled with that of Gus Dewar, an ambitious young aide to Woodrow Wilson, and two orphaned Russian brothers, the Peshkovs, whose plan to emigrate to America falls foul of conscription, revolution and imminent war.A revolution that will change everything.When Russia convulses in bloody revolution and the Great War unfolds, the five families' futures are entwined forever, love bringing them closer even as conflict takes them further apart. What seeds will be sown for further tragedy in the twentieth century and what role will each play in what is to come?Continue the captivating Century Trilogy with Winter of the World and Edge of Eternity. An epic of love, hatred, war and revolution. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by MacMillan, 2013
ISBN 10: 1447211898ISBN 13: 9781447211891
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Published by Berkley Publishing Group, 2014
ISBN 10: 0525953094ISBN 13: 9780525953098
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HARDCOVER. Condition: Used; Good. Berkley Publishing Group. Used; Good. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: 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 Hoffmann 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 of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle but a much more personal battle of his own . . . . Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he'd imagined . . . . Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Krushchev, becomes an agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw - and into history. . 2014. HARDCOVER.
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Published by William Morrow and Company, Inc, New York, 1983
ISBN 10: 0451131517ISBN 13: 9780451131515
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Hardcover. Condition: fair to good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Book Club Edition. vi, [4], 369, [5], , illus. Endpaper maps. Cast of Characters. Bibliography. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. Kenneth Martin "Ken" Follett (born 5 June 1949) is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels who has sold more than 150 million copies of his works. Many of his books have reached number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list, including Edge of Eternity, Fall of Giants, The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple, Winter of the World, and World Without End. On Wings of Eagles (1983) was the true story of how two of Ross Perot's employees were rescued from Iran during the revolution of 1979. On Wings of Eagles is a 1983 non-fiction thriller written by British author Ken Follett. Set against the background of the Iranian revolution, it tells the true story of the rescue of Paul Chiapparone and Bill Gaylord from prison in Tehran by a team of Electronic Data Systems executives led by retired Col. Arthur D. Simons. In December 1978 two EDS executives working in pre-revolutionary Tehran are arrested on suspicion of bribery. Bail was set at US$13 million (90 million Iranian toman). When H. Ross Perot, head of the Dallas-based company hears about it, he decides to extract his employees regardless of cost. He orders the firm's lawyers to find a way to meet the bail. He recruits a team of volunteers from his executives, led by a retired United States Army officer, to break them out by force, if necessary. This team flies to Tehran.Bill Gaylord and Paul Chiapparone, two U.S. citizens working in Iran for Electronic Data Systems (EDS), were jailed on December 28, 1978. They were victims of an anticorruption drive mounted during the Shah's last days in Iran. Bail was set at $12,750,000. Perot organized a strike team. A retired army colonel, Arthur D. "Bull" Simons was hired to train seven company volunteers to try to rescue the two jailed men. Working from their experiences in Tehran, the men trained at Perot's weekend house at the shore of Lake Grapevine near Dallas. Beginning January 3, 1979, they practiced assaults on a model of the Ministry of Justice prison in Tehran, where the EDS men were being held. They flew to Iran in mid-January, closely followed by Perot himself, who insisted on overseeing the operation personally and who hoped that his presence would improve the spirits of his jailed employees.Once in Tehran, Perot and Simons found that nothing worked as they had planned. Gaylord and Chiapparone had been transferred on January 18 to the Qasr Prison, one of Tehran's largest and best fortified jails. Street mobs were likely to storm the prison and release the inmates. They were helped by Rashid, an ambitious young Iranian systems engineering trainee at EDS. Loyal to his American employers and eager to help them win the release of their jailed colleagues, Follett describes him as the instigator of a mob's attack on Qasr prison. Rashid's efforts were successful: Gaylord and Chiapparone fled the jail along with the other prisoners. Simons divided the remaining EDS employees in Tehran into two groups. The less suspicious were to leave via airplane from Tehran. The more vulnerable, including the two fugitives, were to go to Turkey in two Range Rovers. Rashid accompanied the latter group on their 450 miles (720 km) trip across northwest Iran. In two days of driving they repeatedly came close to capture. On almost every occasion, Rashid's quick wit saved them. When he and the six Americans crossed the Turkish border, they were met by an EDS employee waiting with a bus and a charter plane. One day later, February 17, they reached Istanbul, where an anxious Perot had been pacing up and down his hotel room. On the same day the overland team reached Istanbul, the other EDS employees left Tehran by plane-barely escaping the same prosecutor who earlier had jailed their colleagues. The two teams met in Frankfurt, Germany, and flew together (via an emergency landing in England) to the United States. All of.