A brand new thriller from the master storyteller set against the menacing backdrop of the Second World War and crackling with suspense and action. It is May 1944 - a time of international tension where nothing is certain... 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 Flicks trail...