This book is worthy of its author. This is a "thriller" funny !! Indeed, Ken Follett beautifully combines suspense with humor. Even the thugs in becoming endearing. It changes the Middle Ages, the first world war, espionage or slavery, but it shows the talent and the many facets of this writer that can take us where it will, in any world, brilliantly. This reading really was a real fun time! Besides, I'll read it!