Blind Fire: The Zone Paperback / softback - 2012

James Rouch has been a full-time author for thirty years. In that time he has had fourteen books published. Three of them are novels of the Second World War. TIGER, set in Northern France during the breakout from the Normandy beachhead. THE WAR MACHINES, set in North Africa and GATEWAY TO HELL, dealing with the fighting for Monte Cassino in Italy. They were all published in the UK and the USA by major publishers and all went to reprints with translation rights sold in Spain and many other countries. A series of novels entitled THE ZONE has comprised the rest of his output. Again on the subject of war their theme is an alternative near future where the Berlin Wall did not fall. Instead the cold war suffered meltdown. A war across Europe imploded, concentrating itself in a great contaminated swathe of territory slashed across the continent, a huge no-mans land, THE ZONE. James Rouch lives and works in the West of England, on the edge of a small town surrounded by some of the most beautiful countryside and close to the finest coastline England has to offer. His home is appropriately called 'Inspiration Cottage'. The lobby is decorated with framed copies of all his book covers and the original artwork from which they came, a collection that gives him great satisfaction though he does admit it might be thought of as posing.