What do You think about Hornet Flight (2003)?
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. The thing I like most about it, was the fact that Follett really does a great job with leaving out the details that your imagination can fill in. Where other authors might tell you all the details of Tommy's trip to the store, Follett just makes it plain and simple. Tommy went to the store, then he came back. Hell, he describes a really intense reunion of two lovers in half a page!!As far as the topic of the story goes, I really enjoyed it. He really made the Nazi presence in Denmark seem very insidious. Like they were slowly creeping in on the Dane's everyday life. The characters were fun, believable and likeable, even the antagonist, to a lesser extent. I cared when bad or good things happened to the characters, as it should be. Fun read. Good way to spend your half hour lunch for 2-3 weeks.
—Alan Gallagher
Another enjoyable wartime thriller from Ken Follett. Not as good as Eye of the Needle but too good for a 3 star rating. The setting of 1940s occupied Denmark was a new one for me and seemed authentic, although I was never there! Follett certainly created the right atmosphere for his novel. The characters were good, although there was an occasional tendency for one of them to panic about something happening that the reader knew wasn't going to... but that's a minor quibble. A great story, genuinely exciting in places, and listening to the final scenes as I drove to work actually made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
—Joe Stamber
This is a story of the Danish resistance during WWII. The Germans have occupied Denmark, and the police, goaded by the Gestapo, are on the prowl for spies. Harald Olufssen is a student at a boarding school when he gets drunk and paints an anti-Nazi slogan on a kiosk in Denmark. He is led from there to a police interrogation to an active role in the resistance.Hermia Mount is a british daughter of a diplomat who speaks Danish and helps to organize the resistance. Peter Fleming is a Danish boyhood friend of Harald's brother who is a policeman and works for the Nazis. Karen Duchwitz is a Jew and the daughter of a wealthy family that lives in a castle outside Copenhagen. The finale occurs when Harald and Karen take her father's plane, on old model called a hornet moth, and fly it across the North Sea from Denmark to England, carrying pictures that Harald has taken of a German radar installation.The reader does an excellent job interpreting Danish, German and English accents and showing the feelings behind the characters.
—Frederick Bingham
