I always enjoy reading Ken's books.However, I have to admit that this book is not as spectacular as his other books. The plot is set at the out break of World War II between England and Germany on a flying boat " The Pan American Clipper". For those who's interested in aircraft or engineering, might find this book interesting, because Follet did excellent research on the Clipper.For those who is not, the story might seem a bit slow in the beginning, because he starts the book with different stor More...

This novel takes place in 1939 just after England has entered World War II. It's told from multiple points of view, all from people who will take a flight aboard a Pan-Am Clipper (a truly luxurious (and historically accurate) airplane in the second 2/3rds of the book. This is sort of like a "Murder on the Orient Express" set-up although more thriller than who-dunnit mystery. Passengers include business people, aritocratic families, a debutante, a film star, a petty thief, etc. They all have reas More...

This novel takes place in 1939 just after England has entered World War II. "It was the most romantic plane ever made.". Its nickname was the Clipper, although technically it was a Boeing B-314. It's told from multiple points of view, all from people who will take a flight aboard a Pan-Am Clipper (a truly luxurious (and historically accurate) airplane.On the eve of the outbreak of WW2, a clipper ship of the Pan American Line is due to fly from England to New York. These massive flying boats are More...

Judul:Night Over Water
Penerbit:William Morrow
Pengarang:Ken Follet
Tahun terbit:1991
Tebal Buku:688 halaman


Novel ini menceritakan tentang adanya perang baru pada tahun 1939,sekelompok elite menaiki kapal terbang yang paling mewah yaitu Pan American Clipper.

Dalam novel ini menceritakan seoran antara lain yaitu keluarga margaret oxenford,Margaret seorang anak yang menentang ajaran agamanya,hampir setiap minggu ia tidak mau diajak ke Gereja bersama ayahnya,Margaret berusia 19 tahun dan mempunyai kakak More...

I can say that Follette is a brilliant author and he did a hard work here. Book is amazing, adventurous, surprising and easy to read even though it’s thick. What I would criticize about this book is the beginning, which was for me a bit confusing as all the characters were described with all their backgrounds and life and all of them met on the board of the plane at the same time so I felt myself kind of lost who is who. I was also a bit disappointed as I didn’t find many descriptions about the More...

On the eve of the Second World War, Pan American Airways provides luxury trans-Atlantic travel on its Boeing Flying Clipper, the largest passenger plane of its time. The plane shortens the trip from Southhampton, England, to New York City from the 5-6 days required by ocean-going vessels to a mere 30 hours. It also provides a sense of adventure for those who can afford the ticket.

Set aboard the Clipper, this book tells the stories of a disparate group of passengers making one of the last passage More...

Set in WWII just after the declaration of war between Germany and England, the plot details the 36-hour flight of the Clipper, a large luxury sea plane. On board or otherwise involved are a former Nazi nuclear scientist, gangsters, Fascists, hijackers and escaping Nazi sympathizers. Follett's plots are always fun but he is also known for his obligatory smut scenes with too much gratuitous (and often silly) detail.

If you've become interested in Ken Follett for his historical research & period accuracy, this novel will most likely not interest you. Night Over Water reads more like a romance novel than historical fiction. I had been expecting more plot line regarding the war, not the pairing up of airplane passengers as everyone on board decides to have sex with someone they just met. There is something of a mystery going on throughout the novel of just who for and why Eddie needs to bring down the plan More...

Mais um romance fantástico de Ken Follett. Quanto mais leio deste autor, mais fico rendida aos seus livros. Desta vez, e ainda sobre um clima de guerra, Follett leva-nos a sobrevoar o atlântico nas asas de um Boeing 314, um luxuoso hidroavião, que faria a viagem entre Inglaterra e os Estados Unidos e a quem as pessoas com grandes possibilidades era permitido viajar.
No entanto, ter dinheiro não significa ter escrúpulos e no mesmo local vão estar reunidos, durante 29 horas, pessoas de várias estir More...

Night Over Water is not my favorite historical fiction work by Ken Follett, yet, it is superior to most historical fiction works. The characters were well developed and engaging, I enjoy the back stories of the characters and how Follett wrote from the different viewpoints to give the reader the ability to see how much was actually occurring on the plane. The setting of the airplane was well described and well chosen, Follett worked interesting settings (the airplane and pre-war Europe) quite ef More...

It’s September, 1939 in the final flight of the legendary Pan-Am clipper. Although a little slow to get into the book, I was captivated by Follett’s description of the characters taking this final flight from England to America and by the intertwined their stories. From the very beginning their stories hint at intrigue, violence, and danger. We have a spoiled debuttante longing for freedom from her Nazi-loved and domineering father. A thief with an eye for jewels and a tongue that can mimic the More...

I really enjoyed this book. Ken Follett has a way with character development and weaving the lives of each one together flawlessly. The story follows a group of people who have one thing in common; a night aboard the Clipper. There is so much going on with each person that makes the book so interesting it's hard to put down. After the day Britain declared war on Germany The Oxenford family is forced to leave their country, a woman is leaving her husband for her lover, there's a gangster handcuff More...

Ken Follett is a master of creating amazing characters and Night Over Water is no different. The story takes place in 1939 just as WWII breaksout in England. This great band of characters are on a plane to the US all of them have something they are running from or running to.

On board is a troubled aristocratic British family; an American actress; an Englishwoman running off with another man, leaving her husband; a young jewel thief; a criminal being returned to the states by authorities; a grump More...

"It was the most romantic plane ever made."

Its nickname was the Clipper, although technically it was a Boeing B-314. It belonged to Pan American and was enormous and elegant, equal to the luxurious ocean liners that regularly crossed the Atlantic, but different in one significant way. It was an airplane. In fact it flew for only a few weeks, during the summer of 1939, just before Hitler invaded Poland. This is the story of its imagined last flight. Margaret Oxenford is reluctantly fleeing Englan More...

Whilst reading this book, I thought since it has a lot of characters it would be hard to remember who is who, but I actually got them all mesmerized pretty quickly. The story takes place in 1939, England is at war with the Nazis, and it tells the story of separate groups of people fleeing England the United States aboard the Pan American Clipper. The book focuses on all the characters points of view, and each of them are leaving England because they all have different issues with daily life.

I wa More...

Una scrittura senza impegno..... e fermiamoci li !!!!! se fosse un film, sarebbe uno di quelli alla Bruce Willis, tranne che lui non lo vorrebbe fare. La trama � scontata, per chi sa leggere i gialli. La parte "Liala" e.... appunto Liala !!!! Per il resto, quando il motorista ha rotto a calci con lo stivale (con lo stivale? a calci? Ma a che altezza era?) il finestrino dell'aereo in pieno oceano e in piena tempesta alla faccia della pressurizzazione, e l'unica cosa che � entrata � stata l'acqua More...

Most of this book is set at the outbreak WW2, on a Boeing B-314 flying boat during a transatlantic journey between England and America. There are a multitude of characters and much of the story is centred on the dynamics of their relationships with each other, which do become quiet complex. The story includes a Lord who is a fascist sympathizer and very controlling towards his family. There is also an American gangster being repatriated with an FBI agent, a thief and con-man who is on the run fr More...

I actually stole copy of this book from the library in 1992(well told the librarian I've lost it... - what a book, what a story! I kept reading it over and over again, tracing the route of the plane over Atlantic Ocean on the map, trying to find out about the plane. And then sometime in 2000 I went to The Solent Sky Museum in Southampton(where the book takes off, well technically the plane takes off on Southampton Water, but the book is about plane)and saw the Flying Boat(mind you it's not the s More...

Ah, Follett! One of my favorite historical fiction authors. This is one of his earlier works, but every bit as intriguing, suspenseful, humorous, intelligent and engaging a read as his later works like "Pillars of the Earth" or "The Fall of Giants". This story revolves around the stories of the passengers for the first commercial flight of the Pan American clipper airplane from England to America. Thieves, debutants, adulterers, exiles, fascists, entertainers, businesspeople, and many more. The More...

Quando acabei de ler este livro pensei...a imaginação não tem limites!!! O enredo desta história é mirabolante do início ao fim. Personagens bem caracterizadas e histórias de vida numa época em que a Inglaterra declara guerra à Alemanha. A bordo do famoso Boeing 314 Clipper um luxuoso avião, várias histórias de vida diferentes misturam-se e a cada página lida todas elas nos maravilham pelos sentimentos descritos pelo autor: raiva, ciúme, amizade, racismo, entre outros. E no meio disto tudo acont More...

Gostei bastante do livro, visto ter grande interesse por histórias passadas em aviões, apesar de nunca ter viajado num. Follett, como em "Os Pilares da Terra", tem uma forma muito interessante de dividir os capítulos, fazendo-os por personagens, a cada uma delas corresponde um capítulo. Não esperava a introdução da história tão passada fora do avião como foi, mas acabou por ser importante para a contextualização do enredo dentro do mesmo.
Com fins de capítulo espectaculares, que entrelaçam todas More...

Mais um livro oferecido, que possivelmente não teria comprado se fosse eu a andar à deriva numa livraria, primeiro pela cor cinzentona, depois porque Ken Follett tem uma fotografia meio mariconça no verso do livro.

Para primeiro contacto com o autor, não das experiências mais entusiasmantes pelas quais passei, mas é um romance entretido, em que toda a gente vai para a cama com toda a gente no dia em que se conhecem. Isto não seria estranho nos dias actuais, mas em 1935 parece-me um bocadinho.

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This book by Ken Follett is about a group of Europeans and Americans as they fly from England to New York on a luxury seaplane at the outbreak of World War II.
The Pan Am B-314 is equipped with gourmet food and seats that convert into bunks for the long flight. Because war is starting, the flight has an eclectic mix of passengers including a gangster, a political prisoner, an engineer trying to catch his wife, and young people coming of age. The book is slow to get into at first, but it is much More...

This was the first book I read from this author...and what an introduction!! To sum up, it's sexy, mysterious, suspenseful, and so much fun to read. Follet does such a wonderful job of painting a picture of the era, that you really feel as if you are there. The historic references make the book that much more appealing.
I have since read Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, Triple, Eye of the Needle, Whiteout, and Jackdawes (my least fave).

Just for reference, I also read alot of James Rolli More...

Although it did take me a while to read, I think I would normally consider this a really good, quick summer read (I have been exceptionally busy the last few weeks.), especially for Ken Follett. It follows the lives of a dozen or so people returning to America for various reasons on a Pan American Clipper, which no longer exist, when war has just been declared by Britain against the Nazis. It's supposed to be a routine flight overseas but from the beginning, the flight is anything but normal and More...

Did not like this book at all. Felt so much time was spent describing sexual indiscretions that the characters weren't fully developed. Also found female characters in this time period unrealistically feeble, written more like men would want them to be, but probably not how they are. Plot was thorough, but a little far fetched. Felt like this was a fantasy rather than a real story. However, he obviously did his research and was very thorough with descriptions of the plane, etc. so I had to give More...

Boy that took me a long time to get through. Longest book I have read in French, but that isn't saying much.

Just like the Eye of the Needle, I found this to be a captivating read. However I did feel Follett could have spent more time over the ending as 450 pages of build up were wrapped up very quickly. It was all almost too good to be true.

He did develop the characters well and again included a couple of well done sex scenes. He seems to enjoy writing about relationships between couples and do More...

This was an exciting story with a great plot. Follett takes his time to develop the characters in such a way that before long you feel you know them intimately. Some you like...some you dispise. Some surprise you in the end.

I would give this book 4 stars easily, except that Follett, like so many authors, decided he needed to include several instances of sexual rendezvous, all of which, in my humble opinion, were really unnessarily explicit, which added nothing to the story but was just written g More...

A story of a flight of the Pan American Clipper, the most luxurious plane ever built, as it flies from England to America several days after the outbreak of WWII in Europe. Follett develops the story of each of the passengers....many of them fleeing England/Europe because of the outbreak of the war...as they all encounter a very surprising conclusion to their journey as the plane nears its final stop in America. The characters are well-developed and the story provides an interesting glimpse of t More...

Another great book by Follett. I would really give it 3 1/2 stars. Not as thrilling as Eye of the Needle but better than Whiteout. his character development is good and it should be since most of the book is spent on just that. I don't think the plane even takes off until 250+ pages in! It's the story of a fictional last transatlantic flight from England to the US on a luxury plane the day Britain enters into WWII. Pretty fun stuff and a quick and easy read. Actually, I wish I'd read it on a fli More...