I have read most of Ken Follet's books and I really enjoyed the earlier books. However, when he writes about the history that I have lived through, I think he leans too far to the left. His effort to portray humans as only lustful people who have babies without marriage and many intervals of lust. Did he do that to excite readers? Was his tying a black woman to constant intervals of intercourse with President Kennedy necessary for the story? His leaning to the left is too constant in this book. I have loved all his other books but this one reeks of lust instead of history.