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Summary: Back on Track
Review: I think that this is Ken Follett's best work in
a long time. Some critics have claimed that he
has been very overrated, but this book shows
what a master craftsmen can do within the context
of a bizare storyline. This book is a must read
for fans of this genre of writing.
Rating: 
Summary: The best of Follett.
Review: From one page to the next, you're always right in the middle of the action. Written almost totally ''behind'' enemy lines, the pace is spell-binding while and at the same time gives you a unique look into the Enemy itself
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Summary: Great fun! Can't wait for the movie.
Review: This was so much fun. Totally implausible, I think, but that's unimportant. I loved the characters and the story kept me on the edge of my seat. I kept mentally casting the movie. Great opportunity for George Clooney to break out as a villain. I think he'd be perfect as Dieter Franck. This is Follett's best since "Eye of the Needle".
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Summary: Thrill Ride Master
Review: I have just read my first, but definitely not last Ken Follett novel. I received Jackdaws as a Christmas present. What a present it turned it out to be! Jackdaws, based on a true story, needs to be made into a blockbuster movie. It tells the story of how people thrust into dire situations can do amazing things. Felicity Clairet, aka Flick, is a strong main character, operating behind enemy lines in occupied France. On her trail is Dieter Franck, Gestapo agent. What ensues is one of the best cat- and- mouse chases I personally have ever read in modern fiction. During the entirety of the book, I kept saying to myself, This is a master at work! There were several interesting supporting characters. At times you need a card to keep track of these characters, but they are thoroughly believable and well written. This is easily one of my all-time favorite books. Think of The Fugitive during Nazi WWII occupied France and you are getting the idea of just how impressive this novel is!
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Summary: A Riveting WWII Thriller!
Review: While his last several books were mediocre at best, Follett returns to classic form with Jackdaws. Though not as good as Eye Of The Needle or The Key To Rebecca, Jackdaws is Follett's best book in many years. The tension constantly builds and the action is non-stop. For pure suspense-reading, Jackdaws will have you biting your nails and on the edge of your seat. However, Jackdaws falls short of deserving a 5-star rating from me because, with the exception of Flick and Dieter Franck, many of his characters served as "tools" to tell this action-packed WWII thriller and were not developed well enough to truly care (one way or the other) about. While I thought this criticism would be important for you to know, I would highly recommend Jackdaws if you're in the mood for a novel of suspense set in the most dangerous days of WWII.
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Summary: Movie rights anyone?
Review: A predictable thriller the purpose of which seems to be to sell the movie rights. You can just SEE the special effects. Oh yes, plenty of gratuitous sex at regular intervals to broaden the appeal and assure an R rating. I'm not a frequent reader of this genre, but the plot borrows wholesale (with no apparent attempt to repay the debt) from "The 7 Samurai". Can't hold a candle to "Eye of the Needle".
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Summary: As good as he has ever been.....
Review: I go back to The Key to Rebecca and The Eye of the Needle with this author. He is at the same level with this story of WW 2. Some may see the story as trying to curry favor with the feminists among us who believe they could be running everything if only we could reverse some historical pronouns. Actually, the ladies that attempted to sabotage the Nazi phone system in France, just before D Day had help from within their numbers by a male from within and without their numbers. This is really a well told story of the life of the times by an author who does his research and presents as compelling a story as he has ever written I could recount the outline of the story, but others here have done it well. My report is that Ken Follett is at the top of his game with this offering and that is well worth the purchase of this book. You will savor it!
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Summary: Don't Miss Jackdaws!!
Review: This is a well scripted book - exciting - and one of the best I have read in a long time. I have been a Follett fan for many years - but have skipped several of his latest books - This one was fresh and new even though WWII is almost forgotten. His characters are great and the excitement is there by the bundle from the first page to the last - it is excellent
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Summary: Great suspense--all female team saves D-Day
Review: D-Day is fast approaching, but the German army is too strong, too well coordinated, to assure success. And if the allied invasion failed, France and continental Europe will remain under Nazi control for years. A French resistance group, led by beautiful British spy Felicity (Flick) Clairet, is assigned a critical telecommunications center as a target but run into deadly resistance. Flick decides to go back, accompanied by an all-woman group who can pose as cleaners--but she doesn't count on the German counter-espionage expert, Major Dieter Franck, who picked up the pieces of her failed raid and sees her capture as a way of rolling up much of the French Resistance. Much of the local support that Flick has counted on is already compromised by Dieter but she has no choice but to continue. D-Day has to be close--days or hours away, and failure by either side may literally mean the difference between winning and losing the war. The war between Britain and Germany takes on a more personal tone as Dieter and Flick try to leapfrog the other, their motivations escalating from professional to highly personal over the course of the novel. Author Ken Follett does a wonderful job making Dieter somewhat sympathetic despite the Nazi regime he supports and the methods he uses to wring the truth from his captives. In the post-September 11 period, Dieter's identification of the French Resistance as terrorists adds impact to the story in a way that Follett probably did not expect. Follett's story-telling is so smooth that JACKDAWS becomes almost experienced, like a movie, rather than a set of words on paper. I couldn't tell you much about Follett's style--I was too involved in the story.
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Summary: Classic Follett!
Review: Jackdaws presents Ken Follett back in action and gives us a glimpse of the authors greatness that's been lacking for so long. I was a bit surprised when i finished this new novel from my former favorite author. I liked it very much! Thought that the man was a has-been after several not-so-good books in the 90s. But Jackdaws borders to classic Follett reminiscent of great books like Eye of the needle, Triangle, The Key to Rebecca, The Man from St Petersburg and Lie down with lions. It's suspense from page one and the whole set-up of the story reminded at least me of Eye of the needle, the battle between two strong individuals (in this case a young, beautiful british woman and a german nazi making a career) as a war is going on in the background. Two people that can change the outcome of the WW2 and the classic scenario of a spy behind enemy lines. Follett has always had strong women in his books and it's no different in Jackdaws. The suspense grows even bigger when the reader is rooting for Felicity, aka Flick, and her gang of women volunteers when they're dropped behind enemy lines in France to destroy a radio station belonging to the germans.
Jackdaws also shows that Follett is at his best when he writes books with a historical backdropping or from one of the great wars, WW1 or WW2. Almost gave up on Follett after Code zero but now I'm looking forward to his next one!
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