Hornet flight
By: Ken Follett
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780333908402
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Underground movements; Biplanes; War Underground movements; Marine radio stations; Fiction; Women intelligence officers
Description: It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen, starkly different in nature, are straining against the rigid confines imposed by their austere, elderly parents and trying to find their own way in life.
Table of contents: title: It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast of Denmark, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen, starkly different in nature, are straining against the rigid confines imposed by their austere, elderly parents and trying to find their own way in life. Meanwhile, a network of MI6 spies is attempting to decipher an encrypted Luftwaffe radio signal which mentions the new Freya-Gerat; title: a rudimentary form of German radar equipment. Arne's relationship with Hermia Mount, an MI6 analyst draws him into underground politics, putting him under surveillance by the Danish security forces; title: and by one man in particular who has a personal motive to see Arne fall. It is only a matter of time before the brothers' paths converge in a united effort to overcome the Nazis. A discused Hornet Moth biplane is their only means of getting a vital message to the British...