Jackdaws cover art

Jackdaws

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Jackdaws

By: Ken Follett
Narrated by: Samantha Bond
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £6.99

Buy Now for £6.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

Abridged edition.

Jackdaws by Ken Follett is an irresistible novel of the French Resistance, love, courage and revenge set in the Second War War.

A Failed Mission

Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance try to destroy a telephone exchange vital to Nazi communications. Heavily defended, the mission fails disastrously.

A Daring Plan

With invasion looming, Flick Clairet, a British secret agent, proposes a daring but perilous new plan. She, along with an all-female team – the Jackdaws – will infiltrate and neutralize the exchange before Allied Forces land in France.

A Race Against Time

However, unbeknownst to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant spy-catcher – Dieter Franck – to crush the French Resistance. And now Franck is closing in...

©2001 Ken Follett (P)2001 Macmillan Digital Audio Espionage Genre Fiction Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense War & Military Fiction War Military

Listeners also enjoyed...

 All That I Have cover art
By Order of the President cover art
Chasing Ivan cover art
Spinning the Moon cover art
A Single Spy cover art
The Gray Man cover art
The Tristan Betrayal cover art
The Pearl Thief cover art
The Faithful Spy cover art
The Black Orchestra: A WW2 Spy Thriller cover art
Night Soldiers cover art
The Alice Network cover art
American Assassin cover art
The Tick Tock Man cover art

Critic reviews

"Written in Follett's...riveting style and with his penchant for historical detail." (Publishers Weekly)

"Thoroughly entertaining." (Booklist)
All stars
Most relevant  
A thrilling action packed abridged version of Jackdaws. From start to finish you are led on a terrific journey, brought to life by excellent narration. My only reservation is that it was short but sweet, and could have done with being an hour or two longer. Nevertheless, it's great.!

Excellent listen.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A short rollercoaster of a story told the way only Ken Follett can. As you recover from one twist you are catapulted into the next right up to the explosive end. What a sad/happy ending,in the entire story it was the only bit I saw coming,or was that what l wanted at the end? Samantha Bonds voice and beautiful diction was perfect to tell this story.

Follett does it again

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great story, fast moving, very enjoyable. Just a little short for the price of a full credit .

Short but sweet

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Seems like follett was trying to earn a quick buck, lazily. I abandoned after two chapters.

Rehashed rubbish

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
In traumatic, historically real and traumatic, ways. queer lives are not valued. one of the queer women is the child of 'traveling people', and a woc. two white, cisgender, straight women, one a murderer, the cis male character, and the Nazi survive.

lgbt people are killed off

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.