Jackdaws

A 2001 novel by Ken Folett, Jackdaws follows La Résistance in Nazi occupied France on the eve of D-Day. Felicity "Flick" Clairet has been tasked to blow up a key telephone exchange, but finds herself up against a Nazi intelligence officer named Dieter Franck who is determined to stop her.


 * Anyone Can Die:.
 * Boxed Crook: Ruby, though the SOE is very careful to make it so the charges have not been dropped to keep her from running away.
 * Cross Dresser:.
 * Electric Torture: Dieter and Major Becker both make use of it.
 * Eye Scream:.
 * Girls Love:
 * Heroic Sacrifice:.
 * Also.
 * Historical Domain Character: Erwin Rommel and Bernard Montgomery both make appearances.
 * Hoist by His Own Petard:
 * Les Collaborateurs: Stephanie is loyal to Dieter because he saved her from a death camp, and helps him root out the Resistance..
 * Pet the Dog: Dieter's rescue of Stephanie, which arguably makes the other atrocities he commits all the more horrifying.
 * Potty Emergency: One of Dieter's more creative forms of interrogation is to give lots of tea and then refuse her access to the bathroom until she talks.
 * Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The Jackdaws are composed mostly of women who were rejected from various branches of the military, and in Ruby's case are prisoners.
 * Too Dumb to Live: run off to The Ritz in Nazi occupied Paris in the middle of the mission to go on a date. Needless to say Flick is not amused.
 * Torture Technician: Dieter Franck is a pro, and scoffs at the SS men's inefficient methods such as hitting the victim in the head, which he points out is extremely counter-effective since it'll most likely confuse or brain damage the person they're trying to interrogate.
 * Wanted Poster:
 * Wig, Dress, Accent: After she pays a prostitute for her black wig and darkens her eyebrows with a makeup pencil.
 * Your Cheating Heart: In the beginning of the book Flick discovers that Michel is cheating on her with Gilberte when she finds his razor in her apartment.
 * Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: Discussed by the character, and Flick has no illusions that what she's doing is anything less than terrorism against the Nazis.