Another true event which has been mentioned in the story is the murder of Archbishop
Thomas Becket which has a great bearing on the final hanging at the climax of the book. The readers may have to find some time separate for reading the book, and you'll be happy when you finish reading it. It would not be prudent for us to not give away the key elements such as who is good, who is bad, who is dealt cruelly with fate, and who gets the just desserts in the end. After quite a long time, eighteen years in fact, Ken Follett finally did write World without End, which was a sequel to The Pillars of the Earth, and was almost as good as the previous book was.