This is the story of Flick Clairet, a female British SOE spy (loosely based on the life of Pearl Witherington) who has gone behind the lines in occupied France throughout WWII. She fails to take out a telephone switch that handles the the traffic between France and Berlin, and attempts to go back and take it out with an all female team before the Allied Invasion.

It had a great and colorful class of characters and rejects who are brought together for the project. It was full of plot twists and anxiety - in fact I liked Flick so much that I kept putting the book down when she got into trouble, because I couldn't bear for her to be captured. The torture scenes within the novel were brutal, and certainly made you think about our current war efforts and what people are willing to do to "win".

Though I would never have pegged this as a Ken Follett book, having read the epics Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, but it was exceedingly enjoyable! I recommend it for anyone who's looking for a good thriller with strong female characters.