Publisher's Synopsis
Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attack a chateau containing an important German telephone exchange - 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 bestselling author of EYE OF THE NEEEDLE and CODE TO ZERO comes a new thriller, set against the menacing backdrop of the Second World War and crackling with suspense and action.
