Paper Money / A Place Called Freedom Author:Ken Follett Paper Money: A politician wakes with a beautiful girl; a criminal briefs his team; a tycoon breakfasts with a Bank official. Then three stories break: an attempted suicide, a hijack, and a takeover bid. They seem unrelated -- until Evening Post reporters ask questions. Why is a Jamaican bank in trouble? Who drove the R... more »olls-Royce seen near the raid? Who was the man with gunshot wounds? As the day wears on, new questions arise -- about paper money.
A Place Called Freedom: Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom.
From the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship to a sprawling Virginia plantation, Ken Follett’s turbulent, unforgettable novel of liberty and revolution brings together a vivid cast of heroes and villains, lovers and rebels, hypocrites and hell-raisers -- all propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives forever.« less