Jackdaws
- Authors: Ken Follett
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- Type: Novel
- Genres: Thriller
- Rank:Top 200 in Best War Fiction Books on Amazon
- Rating: 4.5 based on 16,688 reviews
- Release Date: December 1, 2001
- Print length: 451 pages (Hardcover)
About the book
A brand new thriller from the master storyteller set against the menacing backdrop of the Second World War and crackling with suspense and action. It is May, 1944 - a time of international tension where nothing is certain... Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attack 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...
Praise for Jackdaws
Compelling reading... great entertainment.
[Follett] is dead on-target... updating that World War II workhorse in which a gang of misfits goes behind Nazi lines to do the impossible... thoroughly entertaining.
Deeply satisfying.
A sort of distaff dirty (half) dozen. They don't come any tougher, smarter, braver, or for that matter, deadlier than Major Felicity (call her 'Flick') Clairet. Quintessentially female and sexy as all get out, she kills without compunction if that's the way the mission goes.
Cleverly plotted... . The characters are sharply drawn and fully realized [and] the pace is rapid-fire.
Suspenseful, gripping.
With its vivid characters, suspense, patriotism, and examples of supreme bravery, Jackdaws is a fitting tribute to the women of World War II.
The book's celebration of uncommon courage and unlikely heroes couldn't be better timed... a distaff Dirty Dozen.
A very entertaining, very cinematic thriller about a ragtag, all-female band of British agents, code-named Jackdaws, sent to blow up a key telephone exchange in France on the eve of D day... adventure, romance, derring-do... . [Jackdaws] promises to be one of Follett's most popular novels ever.
For fans of the sixties movie The Dirty Dozen, this could be called The Perfumed Six... . It's certainly pleasant to have the main character be female.
Follett delivers one of his most entertaining thrillers.
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