Freemantle, who was born in Southampton, England, is married to wife Maureen and has three children, Victoria, Emma and Charlotte. After a secondary school education from which he attained two O levels, he moved through provincial journalism to London's Fleet Street where he worked upon four national newspapers, predominantly international news gathering. He quit Fleet Street in 1975 to become a full time author. Freemantle is a Freeman of the City of London and has twice, raising money for the children's charity of the Lord Taverners, of which he is a member, exercised the medieval, still existing right of a Freeman to drive a live sheep across London Bridge, the oldest Thames river crossing.

Books by Brian Freemantle

The Cloud Collector

by Brian Freemantle - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

When Western intelligence services recognize that a global jihadist attack has been initiated, the United States and the United Kingdom --- its primary targets --- lead a desperate counteroffensive. Sally Hanning, a brilliant British MI5 agent, is assigned to assist the CIA task force. She must help them hunt down the enemy mastermind along an intricately disguised online trail. To do so, she entails the services of Jack Irvine, a guilt-burdened NSA code cracker, using enticements both personal and professional.