D-Day is approaching. They don't know where or when, but the Germans know it'll be soon, and for Felicity Flick Clariet, the stakes have never been higher. A senior agent in the ranks of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) responsible for sabotage, Flick has survived to become one of Britain's most effective operatives in Northern France. She knows that the Germans' ability to thwart the Allied attack depends upon their lines of communications, and in the days before the invasion, no target is of greater strategic importance than the largest telephone exchange in Europe.
But when Flick and her Resistance leader husband try a direct, head-on assault, her world turns upside down. Her group destroyed, her husband missing, her superiors unsure of her, Flick has one last chance at the target, but the challenge is nearly impossible. The new plan requires an all-woman team, none of them professionals, to be trained within days. Codenamed the Jackdaws, they will attempt to infiltrate the exchange under the noses of the Germans, but the Germans are waiting for them and have plans of their own.
Filled with powerful storytelling, unforgettable characters, and authentic detail that have become his hallmarks, Jackdaws is Ken Follett writing at the height of his powers.
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"This was a great book. It was about British women who worked for the French Resistance. They were sent to France before D DAY and were given an assignment to blow up a building. I won't tell you any more but you must read this book. I could not put the book down. It is well worth reading. You get a very good picture of what the Nazis did to people who were capture working for the French Resistance. You will find that what is happening in our society with children bulling kids and the mass murder in countries in Africa, that nothing has changed."
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Les (5 out of 5 stars)