The book is about the espionage triangle between Russia/Egypt in one corner and Israel and Palestinian in the other two corner. It was started slow when the author trying to establish the story between all parties....or maybe it was me not having enough attitude to remember all the details :-) But if you could have a little bit more patience, all are getting more exciting towards the end. The closure however, was quick and painless....too quick and too easy. All in all, there are parts in this book that really captivate me, others are just okay for me.

Un poco confusa la manera de abordar la historia, muchos personajes, se requiere de estar concentrado en algunos episodios, sin embargo, muy bien escrita. Recomendada.

A fast passing book pure Follet plenty of surprises to keep you on your toes.

Another fun spy novel/action thriller by Ken Follett! Triple is about operative Nathaniel Dickstein is given the task of stealing 200 tons of Uranium for Israel to produce the atomic bomb, for the war against the Middle East. But it turns out Dickstein isn't the only one after it, the Russian KGB is after the Uranium, and a team of Fedayeen Terrorists are after it as well. After reading a couple chapters I understood why the book was titled Triple, it involves 3 different parties that are after the Uranium for different reasons.

An enjoyable Espionage/spy novel and interesting characters!

Love Follett, this one was not great.

Perhaps my least favourite read of Ken Follett :S Perhaps, it wasn't just "my" topic afterall - shameful to admit I wasn't aware of the real background of the story, moreovere the whole idea of making the nuclear bomb and stealing the input for this operation didn't excite me as much as other Follett's plots.

I've read the first 50 pages and I still didn't understand what it was all about: an agent (working for whom?) meeting a professor (why?) at the airport, another double agent (working for whom and whom?) waiting for the same professor and following him (where?), another unknown agent (whose agent?) killing the first agent (what for?) and reporting to some Big Important guy.. Ugh, all this made a huge mess in my head.

Then hopefully it made more or less clear: a few organizations (must admit I had to google to figure out who is who, perhaps it's just lack of my general knowledge) including Arab Fedayeen, Israeli Mossad and Russian KGB were chasing the same target - the nuclear bomb and had various plans to reach their aim. The whole book is about different agents chasing each other, collecting information about each other, trying to kill each other, plus quite a weird love story in between. To be fair, i was yawning over the last hundred pages which were like a battle detailed descriptions from my 8th grade history texbooks. Or like a terribly unreal James Bond movie with Nat Dickstein being a superhero. Boring, unreal and somewhat unclear.

3 stars only for Russians in this book: i was laughing my ass off reading the Russian names, their lifestyle, typically Russian things a.k.a "Phys-mat school #2" or "dacha at the Black sea" (is there an English word "dacha"??), was giggling as crazy at the stereotypes about Russians collected in one place: of course we all "have a shot of vodka before going to bed", of course we're eating salted herring 24/7 and black bread is our most delicious dainty. And of course every Russian man has a mistress 20 years his juniour who's head over heels about presents brought from abroad. That was a good laugh.

Other than that - there're WAY MORE better Follet's books, and I seem to have read them all. Sorry mr.Follett, but I really had an impression you got tired of writing of those damn ships, said to yourself "ok I'm gonna finish it now" and cut the whole plot to the end within one page. So much was left behind!

2,5⭐️/5
Historia tajnych agentów i tego jak wyglądają tajne służby różnych państw. Książka opowiada historię, o której nie miałam pojęcia. Mimo mojej początkowej niechęci uważam, że jest warta przeczytania. Może nie dla każdego, ale jeżeli ktoś jest zainteresowany tą tematyką to myślę, że warto. Dzięki tej książce definitywnie zagłębie się w tło historyczne, którego podstawy trzeba znać. Bardzo dynamiczna, dobrze opisane są sceny akcji. Niestety końcówka trochę mnie zawiodła i była dość przewidywalna

So, I'm done with my 14th Ken Follett novel (all read this year) and if someone were to ask me to select the best 5 it would be a mighty difficult task. The way he weaves a story based on historical facts is simply stunning. Triple is another masterpiece - a Spy thriller based in the year 1968 when Israel were believed to have pulled off a mighty coup by stealing a huge consignment of Uranium ore(see attached pic).

The opening scene/prologue sets the story up beautifully wherein all the major characters(students at this stage) are meeting at an Oxford Professor's home. There's Nat Dickstein the English Jew(who goes on to become a top Mossad agent), a Russian named Rostov (predictably a future KGB colonel), an Arab named Hassan(Egyptian intelligence and later something more deadly), a Sicilian-American named Al Cortone(we all know what Sicilians are known for), the Professor's lovely Lebanese Wife (who Nat has a crush on) and the couple's lovely 5 yr old daughter (another vital character in the future).

The story is very simple. Egypt are on the verge of kick starting the process of making their own nukes, so quite obviously Israel needs to get its hands on some Uranium yesterday. And there's a catch that the rest of the world shouldn't know about it. So, the Chief of Mossad gives this seemingly impossible task to his best agent - Nat Dickstein who's now living in a Kibbutz. The task being - steal a huge quantity of Uranium without being caught and without the theft being reported.

What follows is a game of spies between Mossad, KGB, Egyptian intelligence and the Palestinian Mujaheds also joining in the action. The entire novel is edge of the seat stuff but all the action sequences are entirely believable.

It is easily one of the best spy thrillers that I've read and it's as good as (if not better) than Follett's more popular 'Eye of The needle'.

5/5.

Ken Follett es mi autor favorito, devoré todas sus novelas en mi época universitaria y todas me gustaron mucho. No recordaba nada del argumento de esta novela así que la he vuelto a disfrutar en audiolibro, y si bien es entretenida, no creo que sea de sus mejores obras.

La trama se desarrolla alrededor de tres personajes que se conocieron en su etapa universitaria en el Londres de final de la segunda guerra mundial, un judío, un árabe y un ruso. Veinte años después, en plena guerra fría, cada uno forma parte de los servicios secretos de su país. El judío, Nat Dickstein, trata de conseguir material radioactivo para que Israel elabore una bomba atómica. Un encuentro por azar dará inicio a una carrera entre las tres naciones por llevar a buen término o desbaratar los planes del Mosad.

En líneas generales, es una buena opción para aficionados a la novela de espionaje porque es bastante trepidante. Yo dejo la nota en un notable raspado: 7/10.

Tal como outras obras de Ken Follet, prendeu-me desde o inicio, rendida à história. Gostei muito, quem gostar de histórias de espionagem, este livro é muito interessante.

Written in 1985, set in 1968...a fictionalized story of Israel deceptively gaining the uranium to build a nuclear bomb. Good characters and action. Group includes men on all sides who were at Oxford together in 1947 - one who be Palestinian Fedayeen, one an Israeli Mossad agent, and one a Russian KGB. Throw in a beautiful woman and a US mob boss!

This is one of Follett's early efforts and is very good....a British Jew who attended Oxford and then served in WWII before being captured and sent to a concentration camp is the main character. After the war he emigrates to Israel and becomes a topflight Mossad agent. His assignment in 1967 is to hijack a uranium shipment needed by Israel so that they can make their own nuclear weapons. This assignment brings him back into contact with several of his former student associates at Oxford prior to WWII.... one is now an Egyptian spy, another is a KGB agent and he also becomes involved with the daughter of one of his Oxford professors. It is a good read and hard to put down as the story nears its climax.