Hornet Flight
Ken Follett follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of early days of World War II... It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of...
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Ken Follett follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of early days of World War II... It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande an discovers an astonishing sight that will change the momentum of the war. He must get word to England-except that he has no way to get there. He has only an old derelict Hornet Moth biplane rusting away in a ruined church: a plane so decrepit that it is unlikely ever to get off the ground...even if Harald knew how to fly it.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780451210746 (0451210743)
ASIN: 451210743
Publish date: November 25th 2003
Publisher: Signet
Pages no: 518
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Novels,
History,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
War,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
World War II,
Action,
Suspense
An interesting if a little by the numbers World War II spy drama with a little bit of romance thrown in for spice. Fun read although it did drag occasionally. The details were as I'd expect from Ken Follett and I plan to pass this one on to my husband to add to his pile as it's really more his mil...
Hornet Flight was one of my first novels easing out of the hardy boys phase (yep, I was that bad). A beautiful plot expertly bringing together various sub plots and in the right pace. Had it been anyone else I would have taken very badly to the almost magical love story and the mid-air refueling but...
Not my favourite of Ken Follett's books; it's a pretty much standard WWII thriller set in Denmark being overrun by Nazis. Interesting, but no real depth or anything that made me sit up and go wow! That's too bad, as this one could have been so much more. Oh well.For the more complete review, please ...
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