James Follett Books in Order

In 1970s Britain, a group of disaffected politicians, businesspeople, and military personnel believe the country is descending into anarchy. They seize a nuclear power station to hold the government to ransom, using a coordinated operation to impose their vision of national rescue.

Called for jury service while worrying about a difficult pregnancy at home, a struggling man finds courtroom proceedings hard to follow. By week's end, the cases pull him into events that threaten his own life.

A vast iceberg breaks away from Antarctica and begins drifting toward New York. As the danger grows, military efforts to prevent catastrophe confront a threat whose scale could overwhelm the city and everyone in its path.

Britain seeks to capture a German submarine and uncover the secrets of its powerful torpedoes during World War II. A surrendered crew member, condemned as a coward, could yet frustrate the intelligence operation.

Britain's wartime finances depend on moving its remaining South African gold reserves across the ocean. Captain Robert Garrard and his whaling ship become central to a mission that Germany is determined to intercept.

Born aboard the starship Challenger, its crew longs to return to an Earth they know only through recordings. Discovering that their home planet has vanished sends them searching along a trail hundreds of thousands of years old.

After abandoning their search for Earth, the Challenger's four crew members settle on a planet they call Paradise. Their former ship's controlling computers continue the mission, leaving the settlers' hard-won new life exposed to its consequences.

Dismissed from the SAS, Peter Skellen offers his counterterrorism skills to a radical organization planning an attack in London. His training makes him a dangerous recruit and an elusive target for the authorities trying to stop him.

A fatal space shuttle accident leaves an American astronaut under suspicion, while a disgraced Israeli officer seeks his own reckoning. Their paths converge as conflict in the Middle East draws rival superpowers into danger.

A group of computer specialists plans to penetrate SWIFT, the system protecting international bank transfers. Their attempt to breach supposedly invulnerable financial communications puts billions at stake and turns technical expertise into a weapon.

More than a hundred skilled German officers are confined at Grizedale Hall in wartime England. Their determination to escape pits experienced airmen and submariners against the British guards and intelligence officers holding them.

After France blocks aircraft and naval deliveries to Israel, an injured Israeli fighter pilot receives a covert assignment from Mossad. His mission could help his country overcome an embargo that has left its defenses exposed.

Beverley Laine suspects industrial sabotage when a mysterious virus contaminates her company’s revolutionary Kronos microchip. Her investigation points toward a ruthless media billionaire, but his own systems are infected, and the threat reaches beyond their corporate rivalry.

Two students raised in Arama's underground caverns question terrifying legends about the world beyond their community. Leaving their studies behind, Jenine and Ewen set out to discover what actually lies in the forbidden Outdoors.

An aircraft capable of reaching Sydney from London in ninety minutes promises to transform commercial aviation. Fearing the destruction of their industry, a displaced union leader and an engineer plot to sabotage its flight with an undetectable bomb.

Arms developer Max Shannon investigates reports of an Iraqi tank that survived devastating attacks during the Gulf War. Research into advanced weapons leads him toward an extraordinary teenage girl and a mystery that challenges conventional ideas about destruction and protection.

After a violent storm, strange sightings and failing utilities unsettle the village of Pentworth. An impenetrable sphere then seals the community off from the world, forcing residents to confront a mysterious threat and each other.

Pentworth remains trapped behind an alien barrier, with an Ice Age landscape beyond its reach. As the village's improvised society approaches civil war, its residents wait for the visitors responsible for their imprisonment to act.

Trapped inside an alien dome, Pentworth's residents struggle to provide food, power, and government. A cult leader's revival of witchcraft laws threatens a teenager and a local herbalist as the community becomes increasingly authoritarian.

In 1942, captured U-boat commander Otto Kruger struggles to control German officers imprisoned at Grizedale Hall. His ban on inadequately planned escapes provokes growing resentment, while the prisoners and their British guards continue a complicated battle of wills.

As the war ends in 1945, German officers at Grizedale Hall face uncertain futures under continued British detention. Some conceal dangerous wartime secrets, while a partially blinded pilot considers escape to seek treatment from a pioneering London surgeon.

Three novellas originally written to accompany computer games combine adventure stories with strategies hidden within their plots. Preserving their 1980s conventions, Follett brings together narratives designed to entertain independently while helping players progress through the games that inspired them.

Churchmen become convinced that a twin carries the seed of a Satanic messiah, passed between generations. Determined to stop its survival, they confront the troubling possibility that the mysterious bond between twins may protect the person they seek.

Stranded in the South Atlantic in 1941, U-boat commander Ernst Kessler lacks fuel and supplies while taking responsibility for hundreds of civilian survivors. Bringing their lifeboats to safety requires an exceptionally dangerous voyage across an ocean indifferent to either side.