Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attack a chateau housing a telephone exchange vital to German communications - but the building is heavily guarded and fails dismally. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team - the Jackdaws - and penetrate the chateau in disguise. But unknown to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless intelligence colonel, Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And he is on Flick's trail...Ken Follett dedicated this book to the fifty women who were sent into France as secret agents.