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Title: Jackdaws by Ken Follett ISBN: 0-451-20752-1 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89 (115 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Definitely the BEST book I've ever read!!
Comment: Despite the fact that I was seriously ill I simply had to stay up to the wee hours to finish this brilliant book. This is the third Ken Follett book I have read and it has simply got to be the best book I have ever read in my life.
The first two chapters look like most any WWII espionage novel but the plot quickly begins to thicken and then boil over with some simply marvellous and colorful characters who are a group of female [Kelly's Heroes-esque] misfits which brings together some quite comical moments blended in with the more sombre aspects of war-torn Europe.
The group is led by Felicity "Flick" Clairet who plays a deadly game of Cat and Mouse with the Nazi torturer Major Dieter Frank in German-occupied France. The group's objective is to blow-up a telephone exchange in a French town in anticipation of the allied landings for D-Day.
This book will definitely keep you reading. It is a little predicatable in places but then I struggle to find any title I couldn't tar with that same brush.
This IS certainly an entertaining read and I personally can't wait for a Jackdaws movie? How about it Ken?
Rating: 3
Summary: Jacdaws: "Chicks with Sticks"
Comment: Ken Follett, once again, finely blends history with fiction, in his latest WWII thriller, a story of 6 female undercover agents ( although one isn't all what she appears to be ) who attempt to crush the Nazi communication network in Europe literally days, and even hours, prior to D-Day. "Jacdaws" is based upon the true story of Pearl Witherington, who was one of the 50 female spies used in the second world war. Her fictional counterpart is Felicity "Flick" Clariet, who works with the French underground.
The first half of the book is really two stories told simultaneously. The first is the story of how Flick recruits and trains her team to go into Nazi occupied France to destroy a chateau serving as the center of all German communciations after a failed mission, which opens the story, was unsuccessful in doing so. The second story of the first half involves Dieter Franck, interrogator and torturer par excellence and how he plans to break the back of the Resistance. The sections with Flick and the recruitment of her team are somewhat shallow. Her recruits are somewhat unbelievable at first. When they are finally inducted into the armed services, Flick says to them ( and I swear this is the line from the book ) "You're in the army. Now drink your cocoa and go to bed." Dieter Franck comes across as much more of a deeper character. An aide to Rommel of Desert Fox fame, he is drawn very well by Follet and, as a result, it appears a tad unbelievable that he would be outwitted by conicidence and blind luck when tracking Flick. In the second half, when the two stories merge, the action and plot flows much better.
Still, Follett lets the gals be the heroes, as he should. Paul Chancellor and the boys from SOE and MI6 are all secondary. I'm not giving anything away by saying that the Normandy Invasion comes off without a hitch and it's no secret that we win WWII. Though "Jacdaws" is not as riveting as "Eye of the Needle" nor as in depth as "Pillars of the Earth", it is a good beach read. Also, a movie starring, maybe, Angelina Jolie, is certainly sure to follow.
Rating: 4
Summary: Lies, action, love, and battle coupled to make a great book
Comment: As time grew closer to the middle of the 20th century, the entire world fought in an epic battle over land, humanity, morality, and freedom. Brittish and American high commands desperatly planned an all out invastion which would take place in a matter of days. The German's had superior warefare techniques, man-power, and machinery. Something needed to be done to insure a success in Allied offense. Jackdaws, an all-woman, special operative team, prepared to infultrate deep into France to cripple the German's communication capability. However, the leader, Flick, has her own personal problems which lead into lies, deceit, love, and intimacy. These things coupled create the ultimate action-adventure which twists the reader's mind. Ken Follett shows his amazing ability to bring the past into the present and to engulf the reader into the urgency of the moment. Jackdaws will definitly hold the reader's interest until the end, leaving a craving for more action.
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Title: Code to Zero by Ken Follett ISBN: 0451204530 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 31 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Triple by Ken Follett ISBN: 0451163540 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett ISBN: 0380733358 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett ISBN: 0451163494 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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