A review by rebeccatc
Jackdaws by Ken Follett

5.0

I really enjoyed this story about the Jackdaws, a group of British women working with the French resistance to blow up a communications center in Rheims, France in the days before the D-Day Invasion. As a spy novel, it was a page turner, with constant near-misses. Felicity "Flick" Clairet, the leader of the Jackdaws, and Dieter Franck, the German officer determined to find and torture her for information about the French resistance, are both ruthless, resourceful and cunning. The details of how the Gestapo tortured people were disturbing, but it added to the sense of urgency and made me root all the more for the Jackdaws to succeed in their mission.