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James Follett trained to be a marine engineer, and also spent time hunting for underwater treasure, filming sharks, designing power boats, and writing technical material for the Ministry of Defence before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of numerous radio plays and television dramas, as well as fourteen novels including, Ice, Churchill's Gold, Dominator, Swift and Taurus. He lives in a small Surrey village with his wife, two children and a yellowing collection of New Scientist back numbers.
1941 BRITAIN'S LAST HOPE FOR SURVIVAL A vast shipment of gold to buy desperately needed arms -- a shipment carried on a commandeered American whaling ship on a secret voyage across the Atlantic. From Germany, the most advanced killer submarine in t...
The BBC Radio dramatization of the story about the crew of a starship who were born in space, but whose spiritual home is Earth - which has somehow vanished from the solar system. They have studied holograms and videos of Earth and long to find it an...
It is 1941. The Royal Navy has dealt a massive blow to Hitler's campaign. But for Ernst Kessler, commander of U-395, their success creates a near impossible situation. More than a war story, this is a hair-raising account of an epic voyage in which t...
A force field surrounding the town of Pentworth that has cut off the population from the outside world leads locals to speculate that a UFO has landed, but members of a local cult act on their own interpretation of events....
At long last a follow-up to the best-selling A Cage of Eagles
It is now 1942 and the quickening pace of the war brings new problems for the senior German officer, U-boat ace Otto Kruger. The PoW officers under his command at No. 1 PoW Camp (Office...
It's the last chance for the PoWs to escape . . . It is 1945 and the end of war spells new problems for Otto Kruger and his fellow PoW officers at Grizedale Hall in the Lake District. Some, such as the V2 rocket scientist Eric Hoffmann have terrible ...
Millions of years ago meteorological changes caused giant Antarctic icebergs to leave plough marks in the floor of the Southern Ocean. Geologist Glyn Sherwood is convinced such as catastrophe could happen again, but not even he is prepared when the i...
It is over six months since Pentworth was surrounded by a mysterious force field. Society is slipping into anarchy -- and what will happen when the extraterrestrials deep in Pentworth lake decide to show their hand?...