Hornet Flight, Ken Follett
Hornet Flight, Ken Follett
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Hornet Flight

Author: Ken Follett

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 13 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 01/10/2005

Synopsis

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, 18-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande and 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.

About Ken Follett

Ken Follett, a Welsh novelist has written important bodies of work, such as: Eye of the Needle, The Key to Rebecca, Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, Whiteout, The Century Trilogy. His genre includes thrillers and historical fiction. As a youth he was never allowed to watch television or movies, so out of boredom, he developed a keen interest in reading.

Follett had various jobs on his pathway to being a novelist. He was a general assignment reporter for the Evening News in London. He found that work to be very unchallenging, so he took a position as managing director of Everest Books and began writing fiction as an evening hobby. With the publication of Eye of the Needle in 1978 he became not only internationally known, but also wealthy. Follett’s next project is a third book in his Kingsbridge series. The first two were The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, and is to be released in 2017.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Deacon Tom on February 20, 2021

This was a truly outstanding book. The plot and kept me turning pages and reading well into the night. It started out at a good pace but the ending goes at the speed of a fast jet. I normally don’t like books dedicating separate chapters for multiple characters. However for this one it worked because......more

Goodreads review by Blaine on April 10, 2017

I start by giving this a 3.5*** rating. Not the best of work by Follett, but at the same time the man knows how to write an interesting WW2/spy thriller. This book is set in Denmark and we follow the Danish resistance as it attempts to help the RAF figure out how the Germans knew where all their pla......more

Goodreads review by Alexw on July 05, 2021

While I predicted the villain would die horribly, I would have written it so the airplane propeller cut him in half. Any Follett rates at least 4 stars.......more

Goodreads review by Alan on January 07, 2010

I've read only one other book by Ken Follett. It was Pillars of the Earth and I really enjoyed reading that one. I had high expectations for this and I have to say that I wasn't disappointed. It was my first spy novel, so I don't have much to compare it to. Honestly, it was gripping and well written......more

Goodreads review by John (I want my notifications back) on May 10, 2020

I need to read more by this author......more

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Praise for Hornet Flight

"An intricately woven espionage yarn . . . a gritty picture of the spy game and wartime Europe." —People

"Follett at his compelling best." —The Hartford Courant

"Zips along to an exhilarating climax." —Entertainment Weekly
 
"Buzzing with intrigue. . . . Follett is in the habit of writing bestselling World War II thrillers, and Hornet Flight continues the trend." —New York Daily News

"Gripping suspense. . . . Follett fans will find Hornet Flight up to the writer's usual standard." —Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"Follett . . . hits the mark again. . . . [He] starts out fast and keeps up the pace." —Publishers Weekly

"Follett's pacing, dialogue, and eye for local color meet his usual standards . . . fun." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Follett lays on the tension and excitement in a story of espionage and adventure." —Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)

"Old-fashioned derring-do done right." —Kirkus Reviews

"His ideas are good, he offers lots of action, and he builds tension." —St. Paul Pioneer Press

"Tense . . . consistently compelling." —Booklist 

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