Jackdaws by Ken Follett is a wartime drama set in England and Nazi-occupied France. It traces the story of women commandos who parachute into enemy territory to destroy a telephone exchange ahead of the Allied counter invasion. The heroine is a feisty good-looking type who speaks fluent French and co-ordinates multiple cells of the French [...]
Desert Island reading
I was marooned alone on a desert island. While walking disconsolately along the beach I discovered a bottle. When I rubbed it a genie emerged and offered me a wish to have any five books that were ever published. I thought about this for a while. It would have been easy to select some rip-roaring [...]
Hornet Flight by Ken Follett
June 29, 2004 at 6:39 am
Ken Follett’s Hornet Flight is a gripping wartime thriller. I enjoyed this novel immensely and I’m pleased to say it’s restored my belief in this writer. Having been introduced to him via the epic Pillars of the Earth I felt deflated and let down after reading his first book Eye of the Needle. It’s good [...]
Darkest Fear
Darkest Fear by Harlan Coben is a witty suspenseful novel that entertains and enthralls. I found it much better than Gone for Good and Deal Breaker. The story here was more believable. Readers of fiction will grant authors licence to stretch the facts, but a plot still needs to be credible. A credible thriller is [...]
Blue Horizon
Wilbur Smith is a master storyteller. He has the rare gift of making every word count, and Blue Horizon is no exception. I love the way that Smith maintains the pace throughout his novels. There is no slackening; no time to draw breath; and at no time does the flow slow to a trickle. Blue [...]
