James Follett was born in 1939 and lives in Surrey with his wife. He has written some twenty novels and numerous radio plays and television dramas. For the last five years James has been in the top band of 100 authors for most borrowed books from public libraries in the United Kingdom. His novels have been translated into 11 languages
You can visit a website dedicated to James Follett's work at www.jamesfollett.dswilliams.co.uk
A FOREST OF EAGLES (Severn House, May 2004).
The long-awaited sequel to A CAGE
OF EAGLES, Follett's World War Two, prison-camp novel.
No 1 POW Camp (Officers) Grizedale Hall, is a prison camp run by the British
to house high-ranking, but politically cleared German officers. New arrival,
Karl Moehe, has the dubious distinction of being the first prisoner of war
to have broken into a POW camp, having earlier escaped from his guards and
leapt from a speeding train. Senior officer, U-boat ace, Otto Kruger, is less
than impressed until he discovers that this hapless junior officer holds the
key to overcoming a problem with a new secret weapon. It becomes imperative
for Moehe to escape and try and contact German Naval High Command, with this
information. Meanwhile, the British commanding officer, Major Reynolds must
keep order in the camp, and Commander Ian Fleming of Naval Intelligence (that
Fleming!) must tease out any information from the internees.
Hungarian rights: Kelly Kft
Translation: Marjacq Scripts
RETURN OF EAGLES (Severn House, 2004)
The final instalment of THE CAGE OF EAGLES trilogy. The war is in its final
days, and a German rocket scientist, Eric Hoffmann is making his way into
Allied hands, fearful of retribution because of his work on the V2. When he
helps a blinded German submariner, Schiller, both go into the bag, and he
ends up in No 1 POW Camp. For Kruger, the end of hostilities does not mean
a return home. What will they be returning too? And when? And whilst they
wait, Kruger needs to maintain order amongst a group of men who want to get
on with rebuilding their lives. For Kruger, things get complicated when Hoffmann
and Schiller escape on a mercy mission to save Schiller's sight.
TEMPLE OF THE WINDS (Severn House, 2000)
In Pentworth, West Sussex, supplies of electricity, gas and water are mysteriously diminishing. Then, suddenly, a force field surrounds Pentworth, and the population is completely cut off from the outside world. The centre of the force field is Pentworth Lake, where locals speculate a UFO has landed.
It becomes apparent that the force which is controlling the area isn't malign, but it is extremely mysterious. If there is a UFO in the lake, why have they come and why don't they make contact? TEMPLE OF THE WINDS is the first book in a bewitching trilogy from James Follett along with WICCA and THE SILENT VULCAN.
SABRE (Heinemann/Mandarin, 1997)
Sabre 005 is a revolutionary aircraft, capable of flight in the atmosphere and rocket flight in space. It offers affordable, reusable travel, that will revolutionise commercial air traffic, slashing hours off long-haul flights. It will also put a lot of people out of jobs, and a plan is hatched to sabotage its maiden flight. Industrial espionage meets disaster movie in this slick techno-thriller.
SAVANT (Heinemann/Mandarin, 1993)
The end of the first Gulf War and
two scientists are in Riyadh, researching new and deadly eye-guided technology,
that brings a whole new meaning to the term `if looks could kill'. It is here
that they hear the inexplicable story of an indestructible Iraqi tank that
survives everything thrown at it. And the mystery deepens with the arrival
of an autistic 16-year old savant girl, that unlocks unworldy energies and
powers that could be harnessed to ruthless motivation.
"Excellent- what makes this novel so good is not just the story but its technical background" - Daily Telegraph
TORUS (Methuen/Mandarin, 1990)
Science-fiction thriller, involving the military control of space.
MIRAGE (Methuen, 1988)
Middle-East 1960s set thriller. When de Gaulle cancels an order for the new Mirage fighter, Israel's airforce feels defenceless after the exertions of the Six-Day War. Daniel Kalen, a convalescing Israeli fighter pilot is handed a mission by Mossad, to steal an example of the fighter and the the blueprints - all 250,000 of them - so Israel can build her own version. An audacious espionage thriller in the vein of FIREFOX.
SWIFT (Methuen, 1986)
A techno-thriller, heist novel. Billions of dollars are transferred around the world daily, in the forms of binary code, bounced off and zapped through the ether by satellites and computers. Guardian of these transactions are the supposedly impregnable super-computer network, SWIFT. Mobster, Charlie Rose and a brilliant but psychotic computer programmer hatch a plan to pull off the crime of the century.
ICE (Methuen, 1983)
A prescient novel of the affects of global warming on the ice caps. As the ice caps melt and break up, an super-berg breaks off and heads towards the East Coast of America, threatening New York.
THE TIPTOE BOYS (Methuen, 1982)
Filmed as WHO DARES WINS in 1982, starring Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Richard Widmark, Robert Webber and Edward Woodward - an SAS captain infiltrates the People's Lobby - a radical group determined to bring about unilateral nuclear disarmament, even if it means killing to do so. An action-packed thriller and best-seller.
CHURCHILL'S GOLD (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980)
At the end of 194, Britain is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Her debts to America are crippling and supplies of fuel, arms and foodstuffs
are desparately low.
Her last hope is £42 million of South African gold and one man is tasked
to bring it to Britain, Robert Garrard and his merchant ship, `Tulsar'. Faced
by treacherous seas and U-boat packs, Robert is thrown against an old-friend,
now an enemy, U-Boat captain, Kurt Milland. Thus begins, a tense and personal
duel on the seas.
U700 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979) / US title: THE WOTAN WARHEAD
A new magnetic torpedo offers the Germans considerable superiority in the Battle for the Atlantic. British Intelligence are desperate to capture an enemy submarine and learn this weapon's secrets. When the U-700 is captured by the British, one man stands in their way, its Captain, previously branded a coward by his superiors and now offered a final chance to prove himself in this battle of wills.
