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Hornet Flight is a fictionalized retelling of actual events. Follett's website states that his inspiration for the story came from Leo Marks, a former Special Operations Executive employee, who wrote a brief account in his book, Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941-1945 about two young Danes who found a derelict de Havilland Hornet Moth biplane, repaired it, and flew it to Britain.
Follett returned to the Second World War era with his next two novels, Jackdaws (2001), a thriller about a group of women parachuted into France to destroy a vital telephone exchange – which won the Corine Literature Prize for 2003 – and Hornet Flight (2002), about a daring young Danish couple who escape to Britain from occupied Denmark in ...
The Armour of Light is a historical fiction novel by Welsh author Ken Follett. [1] [2] It is the fifth book in the Kingsbridge Series, and is the sequel to A Column of Fire.The Armour of Light takes place in the years 1792–1824 in Kingsbridge, the same fictional English town in The Pillars of the Earth.
This would later inspire Ken Follett to write his novel Hornet Flight. [ 3 ] Sneum stated he had planned to assassinate Heinrich Himmler in February 1941 with a longbow from a room in Hotel d'Angleterre , but the plan was cancelled when Himmler failed to appear publicly.
Triple is a spy thriller novel written by British author Ken Follett. It was originally published in 1979. It was originally published in 1979. The background of the plot is Operation Plumbat , a 1968 covert operation carried out by Mossad that did not become publicly known about until 1977.
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