Just finished reading Ken Follett’s
HORNET FLIGHT. (2002)
The story centers round the World
War II, during 1941, the low point of the war. England throws wave after wave
of RAF bombers across the English Channel, but somehow the Luftwaffe, the Nazi
Germany’s Air Force is able to shoot them all down at will.
On a small Danish island across
the North Sea, a bright eighteen-year-old boy with a talent for engineering,
stumbles upon a secret German installation.
With England preparing itself for
its largest aerial attack on Germany, they are looking frantically to find out
the secret about Germany’s capability to guess England’s air attack in advance.
How the Danish teenager’s
discovery is connected with the ultimate success of England’s war effort
against Germany is the crux of the story.
When I started reading the book,
initially I felt the story was dragging. However, as I kept reading the novel it
began engrossing me all through, till the final page.
The story is a suspenseful
depiction of what a teenager can accomplish despite all odds.
One appreciable feature about
many English novels is that a lot of research goes into while writing them and
this book is not an exception. (I had
tried to emulate this practice while writing my novel: WHAT IF OUR DREAMS COMETRUE! I had traveled to several towns and villages along the banks of the River
Tamirabarani, and I had read a number of books, reports, blogs, websites about
the river and its plains, while writing this novel.) There are elaborate
descriptions about the Hornet Moth plane of those years and about how the
flight could be repaired and operated by someone who has sufficient inquisitiveness
about the engineering aspects of an air-plane. I had continuously visualized
every scene clearly as I kept reading the book.
The broad descriptions about
Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark and its islands kindles in me an interest to
visit places like Denmark, Sweden and Norway. During the earlier years, reading
Dan Brown’s INFERNO spurted a sudden interest in me to visit Florence in Italy,
and eventually, in the next few months during early 2013, I landed in Italy on
my way from India to USA. I had a wonderful eight days sight-seeing trip inItaly hopping from Rome to Naples, to Florence, to Venice and back to Rome. Let
me hope, I get to visit Denmark too, soon.
Overall, quite a captivating novel
by Ken Follett.
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You felt interested?
Do you want to read my books?
Lonely
What If Our Dreams Come True!
Look for them in www.pothi.com for print version
"What, If Our Dreams come True" is also available on www.amazon.com for kindle reading
My other works:
Short Stories for Young Readers - Book 1
Short Stories for Suceess for Young Readers - A New Lexicon Unfolded
Short Stories for Young Readers - For Personality Development - Book 1
Write to me for availability of my books: neelkant16@yahoo.com
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