James Clavell

Allied officers in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II make a daring plan for a mass escape by hundreds of POWs hoping to draw German personnel and resources away from combat operations.

A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.

Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.

A RAF squadron is assigned to knock out a German rocket fuel factory in Norway. The factory supplies fuel for the Nazi effort to launch rockets on England during D-Day.

A germ that could destroy life on Earth is stolen from a biological warfare lab and the thief threatens to release it into the open prompting world-wide manhunt.