Back
Jackdaws cover
2001•506 pages•Published•FRE•User Reviews

Jackdaws

3.0/ 5
3 ratings

About This Book

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. Code-named the Jackdaws, they will attempt to infiltrate the exchange under the noses of the Germans—but the Germans are waiting for them now and have plans of their own. There are secrets Flick does not know—secrets within the German ranks, secrets among her hastily recruited team, secrets among those she trusts the most. And as the hours tick down to the point of no return, most daunting of all, there are secrets within herself. . .

Track Your Reading

Sign in to save this book, track pages, log finished reads and rereads, and build your Reading Diary.

Sign In

Community Reviews

Reviews

Browse all reviews →
Sign in to review

No reviews yet. Be the first.

War storiesWorld War, 1939-1945Great Britain. Special Operations ExecutiveFemale ParticipationFictionSecret serviceUnderground movementsWomen in warHistorical fictionGreat BritainHistoryWomen

The Swinging Light

Book Details

First Published

2001

Pages

506 pages

Rating

3.0 / 5

Ratings

3

Editions

32

Publisher

Pan MacMillan

Language

FRE, ENG, GER

Status

Published

The People Behind The Book

Authors

You May Also Like

Recommended Books

Waltz with Bashir cover

Waltz with Bashir

2008

Ari Folman, Folman, Ari/ Folman, Bridgit, Ron Ben Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ori Sivan, Shmuel Frenkel, Zahava Solomon, Dror Harari, Mickey Leon, Yehezkel Lazarov

The Great War cover

The Great War

2014

Michael Morpurgo, David Almond, John Boyne, Jim Kay