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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.▼
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| genre = Historical fiction, Spy thriller
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▲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.
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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: {{spoiler|In the end, only two of the Jackdaws make it back, the rest dying during the mission or being carted off to a death camp}}.
* [[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.
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* [[Electric Torture]]: Dieter and Major Becker both make use of it.
* [[Eye Scream]]: {{spoiler|Flick puts a knife in Dieter's eye, and while it doesn't kill him the epilogue strongly implies that it gives him brain damage}}.
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