Jackdaws

May 1944 - The French Resistance have a daring plan to disrupt the Nazi war effort during the Second World War.

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 . . .

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 . . .