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Eye of the needle was made into an acclaimed film, starring donald sutherland, and six novels have been made into television miniseries. Follett has had a number of novels made into films and television mini series. An explosive novel of high finance and underworld villainy from ken follett, the grand master of international action and suspense. A terrifying prison as iran descends into revolution, two americans get caught up in the upheaval. The united states and canadian edition is published by penguin random house the british and commonwealth edition is published by panmacmillan. Sep 01, 1983 on wings of eagles is based on real events. The united states and canadian edition is published by penguin random house. Ken follett is the author of this tremendous novel. Ken follett books list of books by author ken follett.
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