Clavell, James

A brilliant story that spans the history of Hong Kong-the heart of Asia-rich in every trade...money, flesh, opium and power.

As a struggle for control of Noble House, the most powerful English trading company in the Orient, takes place in 1862, Lord Toranaga Yoshi is trying to usher Japan into the modern age.

Dirk Struan vows to make the island of Hong Kong, the most powerful land in British power, and he will stop at nothing to reach his goal.

Changi prison camp in Japanese-occupied Singapore during World War II is over-populated by a sickly, hopeless group of men--both prisoners and guards--all held in the grip of the King Rat, an American corporal who exploits every human weakness in his quest to enlarge his power.

Set in Hong Kong in 1963. The Noble House is in financial trouble and the fate of Hong Kong rests on what will happen to it.

Shipwrecked English adventurer, John Blackthorn, finds himself a key figure in a vast power struggle that is to plunge medieval Japan into civil war. Set in the exotic world of Oriental intrigue, passions, discipline, courage, and rigid moral and martial codes.