Reagan, Gorbachev. Bush Sr., and Lech Walesa were squeezed in without any depth or connection to the characters Carefully build and nurtured. The final of the book which in my opinion a disaster. Follett Should have stopped at the Fall of the Berlin Wall, he chose instead to borrow Doc's DeLorean to go from Berlin in 1986 to Obama's 2005 inauguration ... As a result Both epic events in our recent history were Described in a cheap and shallow way , Truly unworthy of Follett.