Hornet Flight
Ken Follett
Published: 2003
Pages: 557
A New York Times Bestseller
It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Somehow the Germans are anticipating RAF flight paths and shooting down British bombers with impunity. Hermia Mount, an intelligence agent with MI6, wonders if the Germans could have perfected a radar system like the one the Brits themselves are struggling to achieve -- a notion shot down by her bosses. Across the North Sea, teenager Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut across the German-occupied Danish island of Fano on his homemade motorcycle, and comes across an astonishing sight. In Copenhagen, police detective and collaborator Peter Flemming searches his list of known troublemakers. In the weeks to come, their lives will intertwine.