Jackdaws

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2019
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Jackdaws is an irresistible novel of the French Resistance, love, courage and revenge set in the Second War War.
Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications - but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously.
Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the 'Jackdaws' and they will penetrate the chateau in disguise. But, unknown to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless Intelligence colonel, Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And Dieter is on Flick's trail . . .
From Ken Follett, the master storyteller and bestselling author of Eye of the Needle and The Pillars of the Earth comes this exciting thriller, set against the menacing backdrop of the Second World War and crackling with suspense and action.

Synopsis

Jackdaws is an irresistible novel of the French Resistance, love, courage and revenge set in the Second War War.

Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications - but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously.

Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the 'Jackdaws' and they will penetrate the chateau in disguise. But, unknown to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless Intelligence colonel, Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And Dieter is on Flick's trail . . .

From Ken Follett, the master storyteller and bestselling author of Eye of the Needle and The Pillars of the Earth comes this exciting thriller, set against the menacing backdrop of the Second World War and crackling with suspense and action.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 624
Edition: Main Market
Publisher: Pan
Published: 30 May 2019
ISBN 10: 150986542X
ISBN 13: 9781509865420

Media Reviews

Master storyteller * The Times *
Suspenseful, gripping * New York Post *
Compelling reading . . . great entertainment * Baltimore Sun *

Author Bio

Ken Follett was twenty-seven when he wrote Eye of the Needle, an award-winning thriller that became an international bestseller. He then surprised everyone with The Pillars of the Earth, about the building of a cathedral in the Middle Ages, which continues to captivate millions of readers all over the world and its long-awaited sequel, World Without End, was a number one bestseller in the US, UK and Europe and was followed by the third novel in the Kingsbridge series A Column of Fire. He has written the bestselling Century trilogy, which comprises Fall of Giants, Winter of the World and Edge of Eternity.