James Leasor

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1980
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • The Sea Wolves

  • The Red Fort

  • Passport to Oblivion

    Passport to Oblivion is the first case book of Dr. Jason Love . . . country doctor turned secret agent. Multi-million selling, published in 19 languages around the world and filmed as Where the Spies Are starring David Niven.'As K pushed his way thro...

  • Passport to Peril

    Passport to Peril is Dr Jason Love's 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 th...

  • Green Beach

  • Tank of Serpents

  • Frozen Assets

    When Dr. Jason Love travels to Pakistan to appraise a rare car, he finds himself caught in a complex plot involving the body of a sixteenth-century English adventurer and leading ultimately to the Kremlin...

  • Singapore

    When Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, it was a blow to the Allies, the British Empire and a significant turning point in history. James Leasor’s story begins as far back as the early nineteenth century, with imperialism and the s...

  • Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes

    James Leasor cleverly reconstructs events surrounding a brutal and unusual murder. It is 1943 and Sir Harry Oakes lies horrifically murdered at his Bahamian mansion. Although a self-made multi-millionaire, Sir Harry is an unlikely victim �" there ar...



  • Boarding Party

    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...

  • Wheels to Fortune

    William Richard Morris, later Viscount Nuffield, set up business as a cycle agent and manufacturer in Oxford, in 1893, at the age of sixteen. He was, through sheer hard work, to go on to make the Morris-Oxford car and set up the famous car works at C...

  • The Millionth Chance

    The R101 airship was thought to be the model for the future, an amazing design that was ‘as safe as houses. . .except for the millionth chance’. On the night of 4 October 1930 that chance in a million came up however. James Leasor brilliantly rec...

  • The Plague and the Fire

    This dramatic story chronicles the horror and human suffering of two terrible years in London’s history. 1665 brought the plague and cries of ‘Bring Out Your Dead’ echoed the city. A year later, the already decimated capital was reduced to ashe...

  • Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes?

    James Leasor cleverly reconstructs events surrounding a brutal and unusual murder. It is 1943 and Sir Harry Oakes lies horrifically murdered at his Bahamian mansion. Although a self-made multi-millionaire, Sir Harry is an unlikely victim there are no...

  • They Don't Make Them Like That Any More

    'Number one thriller on my list ...sexy and racy' Sunday Mirror THEY DON’T MAKE THEM LIKE THAT ANY MORE introduces the randy, earthy and likeable proprietor of Aristo Autos who deals in vintage cars - not forgetting Sara, supercharged with sexual p...

  • Never Had a Spanner on Her

    In the sequel to “They Don’t Make Them Like That Any More” our vintage car dealer gets involved in a scheme to import some vintage cars from Nasser’s Egypt. From the run of the mill trades of London our hero finds himself in Cairo and trying...

  • The Unknown Warrior

    It is 1944 and the British Army has the ‘strangest, most individualistic and most secret unit to wear uniform. . .X-Troop’. This special unit of anti-Nazi German, Hungarian and Austrian volunteers are given new British identities. One of them, St...

  • War at the Top

    Based on the experiences of General Sir Leslie Hollis, KCB, KBE, this contains some of his impressions gained during the nine years from 1936 to 1945. Recollections of meetings held underground in the Cabinet War Rooms and of the people at those meet...

  • Open Secret

    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....



  • Host of Extras

    The bawdy, wise-cracking owner of Aristo Autos is offered two immaculate vintage Rolls straight out of a collector’s 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 wit...

  • NTR: Nothing to Report

    'Superbly authentic atmosphere, taut narration' The Observer "The most clinically accurate description of India and Burma about the time of the Kohima breakthrough I have yet seen." - Daily Telegraph 'Mr. Leasor brings to 'Nothing to Report' a journa...

  • Passport in Suspense

    '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 megalom...

  • The Chinese Widow

    James Leasor's two preceding books in his chronicle of the Far East a century and half ago - FOLLOW THE DRUM and MANDARIN-GOLD were acclaimed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic. THE CHINESE WIDOW is their equal. It combines the ferocious force ...

  • Jade Gate

    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 ...

  • Mandarin Gold

    This was Robert Gunn's introduction to the China coast. The young Englishman little suspected that he would remember it later as one of the least shocking and least shameful things he had done on his ruthless search for money and power... It was the ...

  • Passport for a Pilgrim

    ‘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 ferocio...

  • A Week of Love

    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. Tr...

  • Ship of Gold

  • Love Down Under



  • The UNINVITED ENVOY

  • The Clock With Four Hands

  • Follow the Drum

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    '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-ni...

  • The Marine from Mandalay

    • / Romance
    • Buy Buy

    A real-life World War II tale of survival and perseverance against overwhelming odds from the international bestselling author of Passport to Oblivion. This is the true story of William Doyle, a Royal Marine wounded by shrapnel in Mandalay who underg...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Leasor has published 33 books.

James Leasor does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Clock With Four Hands, was published in July 2023.

The first book by James Leasor, The Sea Wolves, was published in October 1980.

No. James Leasor does not write books in series.
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