Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the 'Jackdaws' and they will penetrate the chateau in disguise. But, unknown to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless Intelligence colonel, Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And Dieter is on Flick's trail...From the master storyteller and best-selling author of Eye of the Needle and Code to Zero comes the new thriller, set against the menacing backdrop of the Second World War and crackling with suspense and action. Jackdaws is an irresistible novel of the Resistance and of love, courage and revenge.

肯•福莱特（Ken Follett,1949-）

1949年,出生于英国威尔士

1967年,进入伦敦大学学院攻读哲学,该校校友包括甘地和泰戈尔

1970-1978年,从事记者工作

1978年,出版了处女作《风暴岛》,声名鹊起,专职写作

1989年,出版代表作《圣殿春秋》,被《泰晤士报》的读者票选为过去60年人类历史上第二伟大的小说

当代大师级历史悬疑小说作家。

2010年全球作家富豪榜上第5名。19部小说被译成30国语言,累计总销量超1亿本。在欧美国家几乎所有书店里,都能在最显眼的位置看到肯•福莱特的作品。

肯•福莱特的小说都有史实根据,就像新闻记录一样,犀利、精密而准确,据说,他的小说出版前都会请历史学家审读书稿,绝不容许出现任何史实错误。在坚实的历史基础上,还能保证文学性,文字干脆利落,绝不炫耀辞藻,以最精简的笔墨烘托出最紧张刺激的氛围,故事情节环环相扣。在他笔下,历史上的真实事件与小说中的虚构角色,天衣无缝地融合在一起,让读者在体会宏大历史的同时,更能感受到小说自身的强大魅力。

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