
The saga that has enthralled the millions of readers of The Pillars of the Earth continues with World Without End On the day after Halloween in the year 1327 four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge They are a thief a bully a boy genius & a girl who wants to be a doctor In the forest they see two men killed As adults their lives will be braided together by ambition love greed & revenge They will see prosperity & famine plague & war One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful corrupt nobleman One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love & always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day Ken Follett's masterful epic The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war passion & family conflict set around the building of a cathedral World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later as the men women & children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change World Without End is followed by the third of Ken Follett's Kingsbridge novels A Column of Fire