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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 with the German edition of his book Whiteout in October 2005. 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 ...
Kirkus Reviews also commended Follett's combination of topical and entertaining, as well as the scope of the storytelling. [4] Complete Review awarded the novel a B, dubbing it a 'suspenseful ride'. [5] Publishers Weekly called the novel 'powerful and commanding'. [6]
Dec. 18—In the opening of his latest novel, "Never," Ken Follett notes that, while researching "Fall of Giants," the first book in his massive 20th century trilogy, he was shocked to discover ...
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.
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