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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Excellent book. Can't wait for the movie!! :^)
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Summary: Follett's best in years.
Review: I love Ken Follett and keep waiting for something as good as The Pillars of the Earth, but that is not happenning. This was a good story, good book. I learned a little more about some of the behind the scenes situations during WWII.
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Summary: yawn, but hurah for the female heroine
Review: yawn, for me this book never took off...i kept waiting for the sparks to fly with the male lead and the female lead....not..i really like ken follet but his last few books were letdowns. its like the story is there, and you are waiting to get to that next level with the character but it never comes. flat. its too bad because the story had a lot of potential, a great female lead and a good setting but he does nothing with it. sorry ken!
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: Ok, this was my very first Ken Follett book, and it really just blew me away!! It's one of the best books I have read in a very looong time... Jackdaws consists of an excellent fast moving plot that keeps you rooted to the book from the first page to the last. Follett throws in a couple of plot twists for good measure too. Then there's the matter of the characters themselves, which IMO is the factor that makes or breaks any novel. The characters here were vivid and well fleshed out. Flick Clairet was to me, especially amazing. All the characters were totally unlike the flat undeveloped garbage you get in some books. Here, Follett ensured that they were properly developed into very three-dimensional people. Even the villians had many sides to them. Dieter Franck, the German Officer was one of the best "baddies" simply because he wasnt completely bad. Follett showed us his human side time and time again till it got to a point where you understood that this man wasnt all evil. You simply could not bring yourself to hate him in the way that other books of this genre might have you detesting the sadistic Nazi officers. He was simply an officer doing his duty the way Flick was doing hers. I actually grew to respect him. An excellent book by anyone's standards. Hopefully we'll see it as a movie one day!
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Summary: War & Espionoge - leave it to the women.
Review: I recently read and enjoyed another book based during WWII with the main character being a woman in the resistance, also in France, so I got Jackdaws as well. Flick Claret is one of the best women characters I've ever encountered. She's strong and sensative and holds her own in situations that many men would bulk at. Like Flick, Nazi General Dieter Frank also had many sides. Reveared as a torture specialist, the reader also gets to know him as a husband, father and (adulterous) lover. The individual women who are recruited for the Jackdaws mission are a varied group with interesting backgrounds but I thought they just added color for the main characters. I'd have liked to know more about them. For me, this was a little slow getting started but it became a real page turner. There were several times that the crisis at hand didn't pan out the way I thought it would, which really made me want to keep reading. A few characters were pretty well developed but others who seemed to have alot of depth were left alone. Although these people were in high-risk positions during a crucial time in the war in France, they still had to deal with the up's and down's of everyday life and love. Flick didn't have time to dwell on her failing marriage or to second guess her feelings for another man. In some ways the complexity of the war and the assignment of the Jackdaws brought clarity to what otherwise may have been annogonzing personal decisions. I'd like to know what happend to those who survived the mission. I think there's potential for a post-war Jackdaws reunion.
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Summary: The dirty half dozen - in high heels
Review: Just prior to the D-day invasion, a intrepid group of women parachute into occupied France. Their mission is to pose as cleaners and destroy the German Army's main telephone exchnage. These are the Jackdaws - an all female sabotage team. They are led by Felicity Clairet - Flick to most people, and they are hunted by the relentless Major Dieter Franck. Franck is the most interesting character in the piece. While he is not assigned to the gestapo, he is every bit as cunning and ruthless to achieve his goal of breaking the back of the resistance. When he is not consigning people to Sergeant Becker (the Gestapo torturer) or humiliating people with his sadistic games, he worries about his wife, children and mistress. Franck is a monster without conscience. Through out the book, he manipulates people unfortunate to fall into his clutches into revealing their secrets. Follett is at his best when he returns to a war time novel replete with harrowing escapes, near misses and spot on drama. Douglas De Bono
Author of ROGUE STATE
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Summary: One of the best
Review: This is a real page-turner. The characters are finely drawn, including the most minor ones. The plot is intricate and thoroughly believable. The reader is left with a feeling of awe at the courage and dedication, not to mention cleverness and adaptability, of the French Resistance. I have been a Follett fan since EYE OF THE NEEDLE, and am happy that the quality continues as stunning as it began.
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Summary: Women's WWII role
Review: "Jackdaws" is a very exciting Follett novel. With this book in hand, you will look forward to daily treadmill exercise. Ken Follett has done it again. "Jackdaws" is a suspensful WWII novel in which women play a predominant role. These women have a mission, and it is to plant bombs in a very important French location. Her name is Flick and she is the leader of an interesting assemblage of WWII participants. Usually, it is the military men who have leading roles in WWII books. This time, however, Follett's story reveals a plausable scenario in which women, along with men, carry out a very dangerous mission of prime importance to the war efforts. Read it!
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Summary: Definitely the BEST book I've ever read!!
Review: 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?
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Summary: This is the best book I ever read!
Review: After I read Hornet Flight I got more interest in Ken follett's novels, this book is about brave women, who is risking their lives to blow up a Telephone system that can connect to anyone, anywhere. And it also tells about the Resistance fighters, love stories, the Gestaspo, and there everyone is talking about the Invasion. I still loves war history, but this is more than a war history.
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