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Triple is based on a true story about the Israelis stealing uranium to make a nuclear bomb. I didn't really know how the Israelis had gone about getting the uranium, but came up with an educated guess. Later I found out that the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, was asking people where I had got my information from so maybe I guessed right!
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'Brilliant' – Publishing News
"Set in May 1944, Follett's novel brilliantly evokes the small French town of Sainte-Cecile which has been under the Nazi heel for four years. Felicity Clairet, known as "Flick", is English, the much-admired wife of Michel, who leads the Reims-based Resistance circuit. By day, Flick is first-aider, by night she plays a dangerous role in the Resistance.
"Her most important assignment comes when she amasses fighters for an assault on a chateau which is a crucial Gestapo base – her team (all women bar one) are the "jackdaws" of the title. This unusual idea is carried off with the kind of galvanic skill that was the hallmark of Follett's early books, and Flick is a memorable, complex heroine."
– Publishing News, 21 September 2001, Hardback Previews for November/December.