About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Ken Follett, James Leasor, Victor Canning, James Hadley Chase, Duncan Kyle, Lee Child, Eric Ambler, David Kessler, H. C. McNeile, Catherine Sampson, Desmond Bagley, Geoffrey Household, Clem Chambers, Anthony Price, Christopher Nicole, Alan Caillou, Sydney Horler, Charles Cumming, David Hewson, Michael Gilbert, Richard Doyle, Elleston Trevor, Manning Coles, David Docherty, Desmond Cory, Gerard Fairlie, David J. Rodger, Sheila Quigley, Nicci French, Desmond Skirrow, James Mitchell, Diana Bachmann, Steve Jackson, Max Marlow, Linda Davies, H. C. Asterley, Cay Van Ash, David Wolstencroft, Peter Driscoll, Matt Lynn, Adrian Dawson. Excerpt: James Leasor (20 December 1923 - 10 September 2007) was a prolific British author, who wrote historical books and thrillers. Leasor's 1978 book, Boarding Party, about an incident that took place in the Second World War, was turned into a film, The Sea Wolves, starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven. Leasor was born in Erith, Kent, in 1923, and was educated at the City of London School. He served in Burma with the Lincolnshire Regiment during World War II and became a correspondent for the Forces newspaper after being wounded in action. After the war, he went to Oriel College, Oxford, where he read English and edited The Isis magazine. He joined the Express after university and became private secretary to Lord Beaverbrook, the proprietor of the newspaper, and then a foreign correspondent. He became a full-time author in the 1960s, after the success of his novel, Passport to Oblivion in 1964, one of the best selling books of the 1960s, a thriller featuring Dr Jason Love, which was filmed as Where the Spies Are in 1965 starring David Niven. He wrote several more thrillers featuring Love, and also wrote historical books, such as The One That Got Away in 1956, filmed starring...
