James Follett (27 July 1939 – 10 January 2021) was an English author and screenwriter. Follett became a full-time fiction writer in 1976, after resigning from contract work as a technical writer for the
Ministry of Defence. He wrote over 20 novels, several television plays and many radio dramas.
Mirage (1988). A fictionalised account of the transfer of practically all documents and drawings of the
Mirage III to the state of
Israel during a temporary French arms embargo in the 1960s, through
Sulzer Aircraft in Switzerland. These events led to the creation of the later
IAI Kfir jet fighter in the 1970s.
A Forest of Eagles (2004 hardback, a sequel to A Cage of Eagles)
Return of the Eagles (2004 hardback, concluding the Eagles trilogy)
Hellborn (2009) (eBook)
Radio
(AT indicates the play was heard on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre, a 60-minute slot; JBM that it was in Radio 4's Just Before Midnight 15-minute slot, and SNT: Radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre of 90 minutes.)
Rules of Asylum (1973*, 90 minutes),
Wiped by the BBC, but kept in the form of a domestic FM recording by Follett himself and subsequently rebroadcast on
BBC 7 and since 2011 on
BBC Radio 4 Extra in three half-hour instalments.
The Light of A Thousand Suns (1974*, SNT), a
cold war techno-thriller set in 1995
The Doppelganger Machine (1974, AT)
Speculator Sport (1974, AT)
The U-Boat That Lost Its Nerve (1975, SNT), a WWII historical drama regarding an informal trial of a German U-boat officer in a POW camp.
The War in Secret (1975, 3 episodes of 45 mins)
The Last Riot (1975, AT)
Jumbo (1976, SNT)
No Time on Our Side (1976, 60 mins)
The Rabid Summer (1976, SNT)
The Twisted Image (1977*, AT)
The Spanish Package (1977, SNT)
The War Behind the Wire (1977, 4 episodes of 45 mins)
A Touch of Slander (1977, AT)
The Destruction Factor (1978*, SNT; a serial in 6 30-minute parts, ecological science fiction)
Vendetta for a Judge (1979, SNT)
The Bionic Blob (1979*, JBM)
The Devil to Play (1979*, JBM)
The Bionic Blob and The Case of the Stolen Wavelengths (1979, JBM)
Men, Martians and Machines (2003). A three-hour career retrospective for BBC 7 named after the science fiction collection by
Eric Frank Russell which had fired Follett's imagination.
^An entry at
OpenLibrary (which does not describe it per se) does exhibit an apparent front-cover-image bearing his name, its title, and "His Breathtaking New Thriller".
^An Amazon page includes an unattributed three-sentence summary that includes "... the Iraqi tank which survived the West's most formidable weaponry."
James Follett (27 July 1939 – 10 January 2021) was an English author and screenwriter. Follett became a full-time fiction writer in 1976, after resigning from contract work as a technical writer for the
Ministry of Defence. He wrote over 20 novels, several television plays and many radio dramas.
Mirage (1988). A fictionalised account of the transfer of practically all documents and drawings of the
Mirage III to the state of
Israel during a temporary French arms embargo in the 1960s, through
Sulzer Aircraft in Switzerland. These events led to the creation of the later
IAI Kfir jet fighter in the 1970s.
A Forest of Eagles (2004 hardback, a sequel to A Cage of Eagles)
Return of the Eagles (2004 hardback, concluding the Eagles trilogy)
Hellborn (2009) (eBook)
Radio
(AT indicates the play was heard on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre, a 60-minute slot; JBM that it was in Radio 4's Just Before Midnight 15-minute slot, and SNT: Radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre of 90 minutes.)
Rules of Asylum (1973*, 90 minutes),
Wiped by the BBC, but kept in the form of a domestic FM recording by Follett himself and subsequently rebroadcast on
BBC 7 and since 2011 on
BBC Radio 4 Extra in three half-hour instalments.
The Light of A Thousand Suns (1974*, SNT), a
cold war techno-thriller set in 1995
The Doppelganger Machine (1974, AT)
Speculator Sport (1974, AT)
The U-Boat That Lost Its Nerve (1975, SNT), a WWII historical drama regarding an informal trial of a German U-boat officer in a POW camp.
The War in Secret (1975, 3 episodes of 45 mins)
The Last Riot (1975, AT)
Jumbo (1976, SNT)
No Time on Our Side (1976, 60 mins)
The Rabid Summer (1976, SNT)
The Twisted Image (1977*, AT)
The Spanish Package (1977, SNT)
The War Behind the Wire (1977, 4 episodes of 45 mins)
A Touch of Slander (1977, AT)
The Destruction Factor (1978*, SNT; a serial in 6 30-minute parts, ecological science fiction)
Vendetta for a Judge (1979, SNT)
The Bionic Blob (1979*, JBM)
The Devil to Play (1979*, JBM)
The Bionic Blob and The Case of the Stolen Wavelengths (1979, JBM)
Men, Martians and Machines (2003). A three-hour career retrospective for BBC 7 named after the science fiction collection by
Eric Frank Russell which had fired Follett's imagination.
^An entry at
OpenLibrary (which does not describe it per se) does exhibit an apparent front-cover-image bearing his name, its title, and "His Breathtaking New Thriller".
^An Amazon page includes an unattributed three-sentence summary that includes "... the Iraqi tank which survived the West's most formidable weaponry."