ken Follett Follows His Bestsellers jackdaws And code To Zero With An Extraordinary Novel Of The Early Days Of World War Ii...
it Is June 1941 And The War Is Not Going Well For England. Across The North Sea, Eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen Takes A Shortcut On The German-occupied Danish Island Of Sande And Discovers An Astonishing Sight That Will Change The Momentum Of The War. He Must Get Word To England-except That He Has No Way To Get There. He Has Only An Old Derelict Hornet Moth Biplane Rusting Away In A Ruined Church: A Plane So Decrepit That It Is Unlikely Ever To Get Off The Ground...even If Harald Knew How To Fly It.
publishers Weeklybestselling Welsh Author Follett Has Made A Career Out Of The Wwii Suspense Thriller (eye Of The Needle; Jackdaws), And He Hits The Mark Again With This Dramatic And Tragic Tale Of Amateur Spies Pursued By Nazi Collaborators In Occupied Denmark In 1941. Harald Olufsen Is An 18-year-old Physics Student Who Stumbles Into Espionage When He Accidentally Discovers A Secret German Radar Installation On The Island Where He Lives. The British Do Not Know The Germans Have Radar And Cannot Understand Why British Nighttime Bomber Losses Are So High. When Harald Learns There Is A Fledgling Danish Resistance Group Called The Nightwatchmen, He Becomes Involved Through His Older Brother, Arne, A Happy-go-lucky Danish Army Pilot. Harald Photographs The Secret Radar Site, But The Spy Group Quickly Unravels Under The Pressure Of Danish Police Detective Peter Flemming, An Officious, Ruthless, And Arrogant Cop Who Hates The Olufsen Family For A Public Humiliation His Father Suffered Years Before. The Amateur Spy Network Underestimates The Police With Tragic And Deadly Results, And Soon Harald And His Jewish Girlfriend, Karen, Must Plan A Desperate Aerial Escape To Get The Photographs To England. Follett Starts Out Fast And Keeps Up The Pace, Revealing How Ordinary People Who Want To Do The Right Thing Are Undone By Their Own Enthusiasm And Inexperience. He Also Paints A Vivid And Convincing Picture Of Life In Occupied Denmark, Of Easy Collaboration With The Nazis And Of The Insidious, Creeping Persecution Of The Jews. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
Categories:
- Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
- Thrillers & Suspense
- Spies & Politics
- Espionage
- Spies & Politics
- Thrillers & Suspense
Publisher : Penguin Books
Author : Follett, Ken
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2007-12-04
Number Of Pages : 432
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0451222296
ISBN-13 : 9780451222299
Item weight : 0.97 lb
Dimensions : 0.94 in x 5.98 in x 8.82 in
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