James Leasor: 31 books

They dont make them like that any more. Cars, that is. They dont, and they never will again. Which accounts for the enormous world-wide interest in old motors of every description, and the fantastic prices that they fetch. Behind this latest manifestation of the international antique trade, lies a strange...

This is the incredible, true story of a Royal Marines walk to safety. Wounded by shrapnel in Mandalay in WW2, he endures a long solitary march to avoid the Japanese through the whole of Burma and then finds his way across India and back to Britain to report for duty in Plymouth. On his way he has...

In 1942 radar expert Jack Nissenthall volunteered for a suicidal mission to join a combat team who were making a surprise landing at Dieppe in occupied France. His assignment was to penetrate a German radar station on a cliff above “Green Beach”. Because Nissenthall knew the secrets of British...

The Unknown Warrior is the true story of one man and his amazing part in the deception plans to persuade the Germans that the invasion would happen near Calais and not in Normandy and thus ensure that they did not commit their reserves until too late. Born to a humble German background, with a Jewish...

Filmed as The Sea Wolves, this is the story of the undercover exploit of a territorial unit. The Germans had a secret transmitter on one of their ships in the neutral harbour of Goa. Its purpose was to guide the U-boats against Allied shipping in the Indian Ocean. There seemed no way for the British...

‘Super suspense and, as usual, Love finds a way.’ Daily Express ‘Bullets buzz like a beehive kicked by Bobby Charlton’ Sunday Mirror ‘Action is driven along at a furious pace from the moment the doctor sets foot in Damascus… a quite ferocious climax. Unputdownable.’ Sheffield Morning...

The bawdy, wise-cracking owner of Aristo Autos is offered two immaculate vintage Rolls straight out of a collectors dream: one is a tourer, the other an Alpine. The cars, and Aristo, get in on a shady film deal which leads to a trip to Corsica with the imperturbable Dr Jason Love, his Cord and the infinitely desirable Victoria and to the cut and thrust of violent international skulduggery.

Seven short stories featuring Dr Jason Love, the country doctor, old car lover and sometime spy in which he solves cases in Giglio off Italy, Praia da Luz in Portugal, Amsterdam, the Highlands, Spain, England and at home in Stogumber in Somerset. Travelling in his famous supercharged Cord again and again battles a range of villains in his efforts to crack a myriad of mysteries.

'Once in a while, a book comes along that grabs you by the throat, shakes you, and won't let go until you have read through to the last page.' - Hal Burton, Newsday 'Follow the Drum is superb reading entertainment' - Best Sellers India, in the mid-nineteenth century, was virtually...

'A superb example of thriller writing at its best' - Sunday Express 'Third of Dr Love's supercharged adventures... It starts in the sunshine of the Bahamas, swings rapidly by way of a brunette corpse into Mexico, and winds up in the yacht of a megalomaniac ex-Nazi... Action: non-stop: Tension: nail-biting'...

Robert Gunn, founder of the Mandarin-Gold trading company, had always been quick to seize new opportunities. That had been the making of his vast Far Eastern trading empire. And when the change from sail to steam in the world's shipping made coal as valuable as gold. Gunn saw his way to another fortune....

Max Cornell had survived the Katyn massacre and the Russian camps. Now he wanted a new life and the money to enjoy it in England. And the price of a passport was three years work for British Intelligence, running the Russian codenamed Butcher. Asimir Vasarov, once camp commandant at Katyn, became...

Based on the experiences of General Sir Leslie Hollis, who served at the centre of British power for nine years from 1936 to 1945, latterly as Senior Military Assistant Secretary in the Office of the War Cabinet. It includes first-hand accounts of some of the most momentous decisions of WW2 with personal...

Passport to Peril is Dr Jason Loves second brilliant case history in suspense. An adventure that sweeps from the gentle snows of Switzerland to the freezing peaks of the Himalayas, and ends in a blizzard of violence, hate, and lust on the roof of the world. Guns, girls and gadgets all play there part...