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Jackdaws

By: Ken Follett
Narrated by: Samantha Bond
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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 . . .

©Ken Follett; (P)Macmillan Publishers Ltd 20th Century Espionage Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense War & Military Fiction War Military

Critic reviews

Master storyteller
Compelling reading . . . great entertainment
Suspenseful, gripping
All stars
Most relevant
A thrilling action packed abridged version of Jackdaws. From start to finish you are led on a terrific journey, brought to life by excellent narration. My only reservation is that it was short but sweet, and could have done with being an hour or two longer. Nevertheless, it's great.!

Excellent listen.

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Great story, fast moving, very enjoyable. Just a little short for the price of a full credit .

Short but sweet

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A short rollercoaster of a story told the way only Ken Follett can. As you recover from one twist you are catapulted into the next right up to the explosive end. What a sad/happy ending,in the entire story it was the only bit I saw coming,or was that what l wanted at the end? Samantha Bonds voice and beautiful diction was perfect to tell this story.

Follett does it again

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In traumatic, historically real and traumatic, ways. queer lives are not valued. one of the queer women is the child of 'traveling people', and a woc. two white, cisgender, straight women, one a murderer, the cis male character, and the Nazi survive.

lgbt people are killed off

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Seems like follett was trying to earn a quick buck, lazily. I abandoned after two chapters.

Rehashed rubbish

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