Eye Of The Needle Book Review. The book has been awarded with edgar award for best novel (1979), edgar awards and many others. As it is, eye of the needle introduces a fresh if not especially distinctive voice in suspense—and is easily the best first novel in the espionage genre since the day of the jackal.
Posted by duane at 6:56 pm. And a key reason for that is follett’s decision to tell his story from three perspectives. Written at age 27, the book is a showcase of follett’s perhaps superhuman ability to grasp and understand the reality around him, even at a very young age.
A lonely englishwoman on an isolated island, who is beginning to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life.
Eye of the needle was originally published in 1978 under the title storm island and was follett’s first truly successful novel, so i figured it was a good place to start. Published in multiple languages including english, consists of 464 pages and is available in paperback format for offline reading. The needle's eye is one of drabble's best reviewed novels (jco in the new york times book review gave it a rave review here) and is about a lawyer bitter with his wife getting involved (not romantically but personally) in the legal affairs of a woman going through a child custody case. A tense thriller, eye of the needle is the novel that effectively launched ken follett’s career as a novelist, also spawning a later movie.