Jackdaws

Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance launches a heavily defended attack on a telephone exchange that carries Nazi communications across northern France, and it fails disastrously. With the Allied invasion only days away, British agent Flick Clairet proposes a bolder plan: an all-female team, the Jackdaws, will slip inside the exchange and knock it out before the landings begin.

What Flick does not know is that Rommel has assigned a brilliant spy-catcher, Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance, and he is already closing in. Ken Follett builds the story as a contest between two sharp, determined people working against the clock, with love, courage and revenge driving it forward. It is a big, absorbing wartime thriller for readers who like their history with a ticking clock and plenty at stake.