History Creator / KenFollett

* CloneArmy: The scandal at the heart of ''The Third Twin'' is [[spoiler: a secret US government project aimed at creating one of these. Back in the early 1970s (just over two decades before the novel's setting), the embryo of a "perfect soldier" was created and copied -- with eight women, all of whom were married to US Army soldiers and who had enrolled into a clinic due to experiencing fertility issues -- getting impregnated with those copies. The resulting babies grew up to be tough but somewhat maladjusted young men, two of whom are in prison (three, by the end of the novel).]]
* DepravedBisexual: Edward Pilaster in ''A Dangerous Fortune'' turns out to be one of these, given that he is only capable of having sex with a woman after watching his best friend Micky Miranda have sex with said woman. [[spoiler: This leads his wife, who initially believes him to be impotent, to go to extreme lengths in order to get him to conceive a child with her, although this fails. Later on in the novel, Edward is revealed to be suffering from syphilis due to his many years of depravity; somehow, Micky escapes this fate.]]

* FalseRapeAccusation: A variant is at play in ''The Third Twin'', given that a brutal rape happens early on but the wrong man -- Steven Logan, one of the novel's main characters -- is arrested for it. Unfortunately for him, not only does the victim pick him out of the police line-up, he's a match for the DNA evidence. [[spoiler: Turns out, the perpetrator was a man who is genetically identical to Steven -- they, and at least two other men, are the product of a secret experiment in genetic engineering that took place just over two decades before the events of the novel take place.]]

* CloneArmy: The scandal at the heart of ''The Third Twin'' is [[a secret US government project aimed at creating one of these. Back in the early 1970s (just over two decades before the novel's setting), the embryo of a "perfect soldier" was created and copied -- with eight women, all of whom were married to US Army soldiers and who had enrolled into a clinic due to experiencing fertility issues -- getting impregnated with those copies. The resulting babies grew up to be tough but somewhat maladjusted young men, two of whom are in prison (three, by the end of the novel).]]

* GeneHunting: ''The Third Twin'' has a variant, in that two young men -- Steven Logan (a college student) and Dennis Pinker (a convicted murderer) -- are genetically identical despite having been born to different women on different dates and in different states. The novel's protagonist, Jeannie Ferrami, runs DNA tests on both of them which proves that they are, in fact, identical twins. Turns out, [[spoiler: both of their mothers were treated at around the same time by the same fertility clinic, which was at the time heavily involved in a secret government-backed genetic engineering project aimed at creating a biologically perfect "super-soldier". Steven and Dennis are the results of this -- and, as the title of the novel suggests, they are not the only ones.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: Pete Ferrami in ''The Third Twin'' is a career burglar who seems irredeemable after he steals from ''his own daughter'', who let him stay in her house after he was released from prison. However, [[spoiler: his skills come in useful when she needs someone to break into her former place of work in order to get hold of crucial evidence that ultimately helps to resolve the plot]].

* ReallyGetsAround: Berrington "Berry" Jones, one of the antagonists of ''The Third Twin'', is a serial seducer of women. In an idle moment, he tries to figure out how many women he has slept with in his life, but gives up -- although he knows that the number is well into three figures (and during the course of the novel, the time period of which is just over a week, he beds two more). Despite the fact that this was the main reason for the breakdown of his marriage, he remains on [[AmicableExes good terms with his ex-wife]].

* ReallyGetsAround: Berrington "Berry" Jones, one of the antagonists of ''The Third Twin'', is a serial seducer of women. In an idle moment, he tries to figure out how many women he has slept with in his life, but gives up -- although he knows that the number is well into three figures (and during the course of the novel, the time period of which is less than a week, he beds two more). Despite the fact that this was the main reason for the breakdown of his marriage, he remains on [[AmicableExes good terms with his ex-wife]].

* ChekhovsGunman: Pete Ferrami in ''The Third Twin'' is a career burglar who seems irredeemable after he steals from ''his own daughter'', who let him stay in her house after he was released from prison. However, [[spoiler: his skills come in useful as she needs someone to break into her former place of work in order to recover crucial evidence that ultimately helps to resolve the plot]].

* ChekhovsGunman: Pete Ferrami in ''The Third Twin'' is a career burglar who seems irredeemable after he steals from ''his own daughter'', who let him stay in her house after he was released from prison. However, [[spoiler: his skills come in useful as she needs someone to break into her former place of work in order to recover crucial evidence that helps to resolve the plot]].

* FalseRapeAccusation: A variant is at play in ''The Third Twin'', given that a brutal rape happens early on and the wrong man -- Steven Logan, one of the novel's main characters -- is arrested for it. Unfortunately for him, not only does the victim pick him out of the police line-up, he's a match for the DNA evidence. [[spoiler: Turns out, the perpetrator was a man who is genetically identical to Steven -- they, and at least two other men, are the product of a secret experiment in genetic engineering that took place just over two decades before the events of the novel take place.]]

* ReallyGetsAround: Berrington "Berry" Jones, one of the antagonists of ''The Third Twin'', is a serial seducer of women. In an idle moment, he tries to figure out how many women he has slept with in his life, but gives up -- although he knows that the number is well into three figures (and during the course of the novel, the time period of which is less than a week, he beds two more). Despite the fact that this was the main reason for the breakdown of his marriage, he remains on [[AmicableExes good terms with his ex-wife]]. And despite the fact that he's a villain, he subverts the GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex trope.

* ReallyGetsAround: Berrington "Berry" Jones, one of the antagonists of ''The Third Twin'', is a serial seducer of women, which caused the break-up of his marriage. In an idle moment, he tries to figure out how many women he has slept with in his life, but gives up -- although he knows that the number is well into three figures. Despite this, he remains on [[AmicableExes good terms with his ex-wife]].

* EvilTwin: As might be deduced from the title, one of the main characters in ''The Third Twin'' has ''two'' of these. [[spoiler: More than two, in fact.]]

* EvilTwin: As might be deduced from the title, one of the protagonists in ''The Third Twin'' has ''two'' of these. [[spoiler: More than two, in fact.]]

* GeneHunting: ''The Third Twin'' has a variant, in that two young men -- Steven Logan (a college student) and Dennis Pinker (a convicted murderer) -- are genetically identical despite having been born to different women on different dates and in different states. The novel's protagonist, Jeannie Ferrami, runs DNA tests on both of them which proves that they are, in fact, identical twins. Turns out, [[spoiler: both of their mothers, and at least two other women, were treated at around the same time by the same fertility clinic, which was heavily involved in a secret government-backed genetic experiment aimed at creating a biologically perfect "super-soldier", at the time. And, as the title of the novel suggests, Steven and Dennis are not the only ones.]]