Ken Follett's Whiteout
2005 by Pan Books
Whiteout is yet another Follett special. The precise detail and descriptive characters he creates makes his books so difficult to put down.
Whiteout is an epic tale of human betrayal, family feud and medical catastrophe, all with a ticking clock.
Every page of this story has some dramatic action taking place, a cliff-hanger or even a developing love affair.
The audience will find Kit to be a most deceitful character and will take an instant dislike to his personality - stereotypically rich, a spoilt only son of a wealthy millionaire who gets extremely perturbed when things dont go his way. However, the fact that he finally gets what is coming to him, is justice enough.
I admire how Follett has decided to make the powerful woman in the story, the hero, the knight in shining armour who rescues the Oxenford family from certain death, after Kit embarks on a dangerous mission which heads towards even his own self-destruction. With the help of master criminals, all Kit wants to do is repay his building gambling debt. Things soon take a turn for the worse when they steal a lethal infectious drug from Oxenford Medical and then hold up Stanley Oxenford's family on Christmas Day as hostages in their family home. What makes this exceptionally is how they manage to steal this drug from right under, head of security Toni Gallo's nose, and even past her high-tech security systems.
We find ourselves asking, what will happen to this deadly drug, which has ended up in the wrong hands.
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