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Winner · Audie Awards 2003

Jackdaws

by Ken Follett

novel by Ken Follett

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 that goes horribly wrong, her world turns upside down. Her group destroyed, her husband missing, her superiors unsure of her, her own confidence badly shaken, she has one last chance at the target, but the challenge, once daunting, is now near impossible. The new plan requires an all-woman team, none of them professionals, to be assembled and trained within days.

Synopsis from Open Library.

Language
English
Genre
spy fiction
Pages
506
ISBN
9780451219596
Subjects
War stories, World War, 1939-1945, Great Britain. Special Operations Executive, Female Participation, Fiction, Secret service, Underground movements, Women in war

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