James Clavell His Three Epic Novels: Shogun, Tai Pan, And King Rat

Three sweeping novels, each set in a different corner of Asia, are gathered in one volume. Shogun follows an English navigator who is shipwrecked in feudal Japan at the start of the seventeenth century, drawn into the rivalries of its warring lords. Tai-Pan turns to Hong Kong in the 1840s, where a merchant house fights for power and wealth in the early days of the British colony. King Rat takes readers into a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Singapore during the Second World War, where survival depends on cunning and nerve.

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