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Title: Hornet Flight by Ken Follett, John Lee, TBA ISBN: 0142800104 Publisher: E P Dutton Audio Pub. Date: 28 November, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 10 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.49
Rating: 4
Summary: Restraint Yields Richness In The Hornet's Flight Plan
Comment: Harald Olufsen, a student in occupied Denmark, stumbles upon a secret German radar station. Unless he relays this discovery to England, huge RAF loses will continue and British and Russian war efforts may crumble. With the help of his heroic brother, a new love and a British agent, Harald needs to dodge some determined pursuers and navigate a 600-mile trek across the cold North Sea to gain his freedom and to help the war effort. Ken Follett delivers a realistic and engaging tale in "Hornet Flight".
Follett is no stranger to World War II yarns, but he approaches this thriller with a new and refreshing perspective. Rather than painting the Germans as rabid Nazis, he portrays them only as menacing background. The real villain is a Danish detective with a very complex personality, determined to break the spy ring and extract personal vengeance from Harald and his family. The hero is imperfect, yielding a clever idea one moment and staggering into a pitfall the next. This heightens the realism and suspense. In fact, Follett downplays his normal gunplay, using the space to develop a very rich ensemble of characters woven into an intriguing and rewarding story.
"Hornet Flight" neither begins nor ends with explosions. The reader ends up enjoying the journey as much as the destination.
Rating: 2
Summary: Sharp, but no Sting
Comment: Maybe there are two Ken Folletts. One Follett has given us stories with complex plots and interesting, well-defined characters. This Follett wrote The Eye of the Needle, Lie Down with Lions, The Pillars of the Earth, and Night Over Water. The other Follett gives us stories with simple story lines, a plot that is thin and/or obvious, and cardboard characters. Unfortunately, the latter Follett is responsible for Hornet Flight. Adolescent characters pursue an adolescent plot with dialog and description suitable for adolescents.
In the Summer of 1941, Harald Olufson, a Danish teenager, is studying for final exams and anticipating college. German occupation is lightly felt, and while some Danes are resentful, none seem rebellious. And some welcome the German drive for organization and no-nonsense attitude toward criminals and trouble-makers. In this setting young Harald blunders onto a strange apparatus build by the Germans near his home; visits the home of a Jewish classmate to discover his beautiful sister Karen and a civilian sport aircraft stored in the barn; and gets into trouble with the police for painting anti-German graffiti on a wall while drunk (for the first time in his life, of course). Harald's brother, Arne, a Danish air force pilot is engaged to Hermia, a British citizen who worked in the embassy in Copenhagen until the German's arrived. Hermia has become the head of the Danish section of British Intelligence, and is charged by Churchill to discover how the Germans have developed air defenses that are crippling bomber raids, which are all the British have left to fight with. In a series of coincidences, Harald and Karen survive the breakdown of the fledgling resistance organization Hermia established before she left Denmark and miraculously escape to England with the information that the British need to counter the German radar and save the day.
Hornet Flight is an interesting story reminiscent of young adult fiction of an earlier day. While entertaining, it is far short of what Follett's adult fans have a right to expect.
Rating: 5
Summary: Exciting WWII tale
Comment: Ken Follett can usually be depended upon to deliver a story full of action, adventure and suspense, and his latest is no exception. Once again we are back in the dark days of WWII when the Nazis are at the height of their conquest of Western Europe. In this tale, the location is Denmark, a place not usually the subject of wartime espionage tales. We are given the story of how the Allies were able to overcome the German advantage in early radar, and it is told with all of the old skill of this famous author. We have the intrepid hero, the conflicted Nazi-leaning policeman, the spunky female love interest, and the regular host of supporting characters that we have all come to know and love from Mr. Follett's books. It's formula writing, but it's formula writing at its best, and the reader keeps turning the poages from beginning to end. That's all one can require from a book of this type, and the author delivers. It's great escapist entertainment, and I recommend it.
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