Recently I have watched the movie "The Book Thief" , Which is a World War based story based on the Novel of the same name. This movie inspired to read more about World War related thrillers. Accidentally during my next visit to local library, I bumped into this book "Jackdaws" by Ken Follett.
This story is about the undercover operation of England's SOE and France's Resistance in north France to blow up a major Telephone exchange located in Saint Cecilia, Which is key to the Germans communication network. Since the earlier attempt to strike on the Telephone exchange got failed, SOE planned to send a all female agents under the Jackdaws operation who will be disguised as cleaners of the telephone exchange facility.
The title Jackdaws is the code name of the undercover operation, which symbolizes a bird in the crow family found in and around Saint Cecilia region. Felicity Clairet also called as Flick is the leader of the operation. It enthralls the readers and Often at times puts us to the edge of the seat, making us to think and anticipate about Flick's encounter with Dieter Frank who is the German Army Intelligence officer.
