Set against the menacing backdrop of the Second World War and crackling with suspense, Jackdaws is the new thriller
from the master storyteller.Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attack a chateau containing a telephone
exchange vital to German communications . 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...

About The Reader
Jilly Bond has worked extensively in theatre and radio for the past twelve years. Her credits on stage include
Miranda (and Antonio!) in The Tempest, Fiona, the .girl., in When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout and Anita
in Ayckbourn.s A Small Family Business. She is regularly heard in dramas for Radio Four and the BBC World Service.
Among her roles is Susan Grantly in The Barchester Chronicles. She has read numerous Afternoon Stories for Radio Four
and is also a director and writer. She lives in London with her husband and two children.

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