description: 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 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... From the master storyteller and bestselling author of Eye of the Needle and Code to Zero comes the new thriller, set against the menacing backdrop of the Second World War and crackling with suspense and action.
language: English
title: Jackdaws
titlecomplete: Jackdaws
characters: Walter Goedel, Brian Standish, Hans Hesse, Michel Clairet, Diana Colefield, Denise Bowyer, Willi Weber, Bernard Montgomery, Greta O'Reilly, Simon Fortescue, Ruby Romain, Felicity "Flick" Clairet, Erwin Rommel, Stéphanie, Maude Valentine, Jeanne Lemas, Percy Thwaite, Dieter Franck, Paul Chancellor, Jelly Knight
genres: Fiction, Historical, France, War, Mystery, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Espionage, Suspense, World War II
ratings_count: 36930
places: France, Reims, England, Paris, Sainte-Cécile
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Audie Award
category: Fiction, Abridged, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Corine Internationaler Buchpreis
category: Weltbild Leserpreis
publisher: Pan MacMillan