Brave secret agents, in this story predominantly female, undertake a mission in occupied france. In his own bestselling tradition of eye of the needle and the key to rebecca, ken follett delivers a breathtaking novel of suspense set in the most dangerous days of world war ii. Jun 17, 2011 jackdaws is a fastpaced thriller set towards the end of the second world war when a group of women must help the french resistance to destroy a key nazi communications post in time for the allied. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading jackdaws. Synopsis jackdaws is an irresistible novel of the resistance and of love, courage and revenge two weeks before dday, 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. Jackdaws 2001, a thriller about a group of women parachuted into france to destroy a vital telephone exchange which won the corine literature prize for 2003 and hornet flight 2002, about a daring young danish couple who escape. They dont know where or when, but the germans know itll be soon, and for felicity flick clairet, the stakes have never been higher.
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