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Jackdaws - Audio CD - Abridged
Author: Ken Follett, Colin Stinton (Narrator), Barbara Rosenblat (Narrator)

Each book by Ken Follett, one of the most successful suspense writers of our time, is a welcome event. With Jackdaws, he returns to his most successful era, the darkest days of World War II. It is 1944 and the Allies are preparing for the invasion of Europe. In the occupied town of Sainte-Cecile, the French Resistance is preparing to blow up the... more » chateau that now houses the crucial telephone exchange connecting the French telephone system to that of Germany. Bombers have been unable to inflict enough damage on the chateau to disrupt communications for more than a few hours at a time, but the Allies need to make sure that communications is down for longer so that there will be as little warning of the invasion as possible.

Felicity Clariet, known as Flick, is a British secret agent patrolling the streets around the chateau waiting for the first explosions that will give the signal for the attack to begin. She is married to Michel, a Resistance fighter. When the operation goes horribly wrong, they barely escape with their lives and Flick returns to her home in London -- but not for long. When Flick returns to France it will be as part of an audacious, quickly assembled plan to put female spies in the chateau as telephone operators and cleaners, enabling the Allies to destroy the ability of the Exchange to warn Germany in advance of the landing on the beaches of Normandy.

The twists and turns of the plot will keep you on the edge of your seat. Follett tells us that Jackdaws is based on a true story. The Special Operations Executive sent 50 women into France as secret agents. Thirty-six survived.

Audio Notes: In the waning days of WWII, British intelligence agent Felicity "Flick" Clariet wants to destroy Europe's largest telephone exchange. She recruits an all-woman team, the Jackdaws, to impersonate cleaning ladies for infiltration. Each reader takes an alternating strand of the story: Barbara Rosenblat reads the passages about Flick and her team, while Colin Stinson follows Nazi Major Dieter Franck in his pursuit of Flick. The shared duties work well for this cat-and-mouse game, and both readers do an excellent job -- Rosenblat with a toughness that reflects Flick's determination and Stinton with a cool detachment that conveys Franck's methodical and brutal investigative techniques.

Abridged: 5 Compact Discs, Running Time: 6 hours, Narrators: Colin Stinton, Barbara Rosenblat

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ISBN-13: 9780142800027
ISBN-10: 0142800023
Publication Date: 12/3/2001
Edition: Abridged
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Currently 3.9/5 Stars.

3.9 stars, based on 6 ratings

Publisher: Penguin Audio
Book Type: Audio CD
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Genres:

Literature & Fiction >> General >> Contemporary
Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction >> Historical
Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction >> War
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense >> Thrillers & Suspense >> Spies & Politics
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense >> Thrillers & Suspense >> Suspense
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense >> Authors, A-Z >> ( F ) >> Follett, Ken >> General

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