His weapon is the stiletto, his codename: "The Needle." He is Hitler's prize undercover agent - a cold and professional killer. It is 1944 and weeks before D-Day. The Allies are disguising their invasion plans with a phoney armada of ships and planes. Their plan would be ruined if an enemy agent found out... and then "The Needle" does just that. Hunted by MI5, he leads a murderous trail across Britain to a waiting U-Boat. But he hasn't planned for a storm-battered island, and the remarkable young woman who lives there . . . "Eye of the Needle," an international bestseller, is a heart-racingly exciting tale about the fate of the war resting in the hands of a master spy, his opponent and a brave woman. 'An absolutely terrific thriller, so pulse-pounding, so ingenious in its plotting and so frighteningly realistic that you simply cannot stop reading' "Publishers Weekly" 'A tense, marvellously detailed suspense thriller based on a solid foundation of fact.' "Sunday Times"

肯•福萊特（Ken Follett，1949-）

1949年，齣生於英國威爾士

1967年，進入倫敦大學學院攻讀哲學，該校校友包括甘地和泰戈爾

1970-1978年，從事記者工作

1978年，齣版瞭處女作《風暴島》，聲名鵲起，專職寫作

1989年，齣版代錶作《聖殿春鞦》，被《泰晤士報》的讀者票選為過去60年人類曆史上第二偉大的小說

當代大師級曆史懸疑小說作傢。

2010年全球作傢富豪榜上第5名。19部小說被譯成30國語言，纍計總銷量超1億本。在歐美國傢幾乎所有書店裏，都能在最顯眼的位置看到肯•福萊特的作品。

肯•福萊特的小說都有史實根據，就像新聞記錄一樣，犀利、精密而準確，據說，他的小說齣版前都會請曆史學傢審讀書稿，絕不容許齣現任何史實錯誤。在堅實的曆史基礎上，還能保證文學性，文字乾脆利落，絕不炫耀辭藻，以最精簡的筆墨烘托齣最緊張刺激的氛圍，故事情節環環相扣。在他筆下，曆史上的真實事件與小說中的虛構角色，天衣無縫地融閤在一起，讓讀者在體會宏大曆史的同時，更能感受到小說自身的強大魅力。