Ken Follett bestselling author of The Pillars Of The Earth Fall of Giants.Book one of the century trilogy.
It is 1911 ,and the coronation day if king George V. Thirteen year old Billy William begins his first day at work in a coal mine.
The Williams family is considered by romance and enmity to the Fitzherbert fall in love with Walter Von Ulrich,a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of His Dewar , ambitious young aide to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson .