The Hammer of Eden: A Novel
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Ken Follett. (2017). The Hammer of Eden: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Ken Follett. 2017. The Hammer of Eden: A Novel. Books on Tape.

Ken Follett, The Hammer of Eden: A Novel. Books on Tape, 2017.

Ken Follett. The Hammer of Eden: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2017.

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   • bioText: Ken Follett burst into the book world with Eye of the Needle, an award-winning thriller and international bestseller. After several more successful thrillers, he surprised everyone with The Pillars of the Earth and its long-awaited sequel, World Without End, a national and international bestseller. Follett’s new, magnificent historical epic, the Century Trilogy, includes the bestselling Fall of Giants, Winter of the World, and Edge of Eternity. He lives in England with his wife, Barbara.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
The FBI doesn’t believe it. The Governor wants the problem to disappear. But agent Judy Maddox knows the threat is real: An extreme group of eco-terrorists has the means and the know-how to set off a massive earthquake of epic proportions. For California, time is running out.
 
Now Maddox is scrambling to hunt down a petty criminal turned cult leader turned homicidal mastermind. Because she knows that the dying has already begun. And things will only get worse when the earth violently shifts, bolts, and shakes down to its very core.

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   • content: Terrorists threaten to cause earthquakes throughout California if their demands aren't met in this agreeable, though only mildly engaging, story. The fact that the novel is at least a hundred pages (or, in this case, two cassettes) too long is mitigated by Alexander Adams's clean, articulate reading, which is well paced and laced with thoughtful vocal characterizations. Can FBI agent Judy Maddox save the day before San Francisco falls into the sea? In the Books on Tape version you'll get to hear a few extras, including the author's afterword and jacket notes, which are excised from this Random House retail version. J.M. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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     September 28, 1998
     After 20 years of writing bestselling novels, Follett is enough of a pro to produce a reliable page-turner from a flimsy premise--as he does here. His working out of how a rural, socially radical California commune moves not heaven but earth to stave off the loss of their land to a government dam and the ensuing flood is smartly paced if nearly devoid of inspiration. What distinguishes it is not the communards' weapon, a stolen seismic vibrator generally used by oil companies to sound for liquid gold but also handy for starting earthquakes. Nor is it the mechanical progression of the plot, as the radicals, calling themselves the Hammer of Eden, escalate threats and consequent quakes in order to blackmail the state into halting the dam until the finale finds them about to devastate San Francisco. Nor is it the by-the-book chase of the terrorists by a headstrong female FBI agent who might have walked onstage from any of a dozen other thrillers. What does--other than its efficient telling--raise the novel above mundanity is the depth of characterization of its villains, a Follett forte since his splendid debut in Eye of the Needle. Follett devotes many pages to backstory, creating in Priest, once a smalltime hood and now the commune's leader, in Star, his hippie earth-woman, and in Melanie, a bitter young beauty who throws in with the commune, fully realized outcasts, crazed and desperate idealists whose actions are as believable as they are heinous. All else in the novel, including the perfunctory prose, serve only to push the story quickly through its paces, but Follett's troupe of lost souls makes it dance to a memorable, mournful tune. Agent, Al Zuckerman; major ad/promo; simultaneous Random House audio and large-print edition.

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   • content: The title refers to a Charles Manson-like group trying to save the land under its commune by causing earthquakes. The obligatory hunk of a hero and beautiful heroine kindle an obligatory romance while foiling the bad guys, who include the hunk's ex-wife. So conventional is the novel and so high the energy of its narrator that the only suspense comes from whether or not Tony Heald will manage to keep the adrenaline pumping for the duration of all six sides. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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Now Maddox is scrambling to hunt down a petty criminal turned cult leader turned homicidal mastermind. Because she knows that the dying has already begun. And things will only get worse when the earth violently shifts, bolts, and shakes down to its very core.

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