Jackdaws

Ken Follett

• 17 november 2006
• 9780230527812

Samenvatting:

From master storyteller Ken Follett, author of The Pillars of the Earth and Never. It is May 1944, and a young British secret agent leads an all-woman team on a daring plan to disrupt the Nazi war effort – but the Germans are on their trail . . .

Abridged edition.

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

A Failed Mission
Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance try to destroy a telephone exchange vital to Nazi communications. Heavily defended, the mission fails disastrously.

A Daring Plan
With invasion looming, Flick Clairet, a British secret agent, proposes a daring but perilous new plan. She, along with an all-female team – the Jackdaws – will infiltrate and neutralize the exchange before Allied Forces land in France.

A Race Against Time
However, unbeknownst to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant spy-catcher – Dieter Franck – to crush the French Resistance. And now Franck is closing in . . .