King Rat :The Fourth Novel of the Asian Saga - The Asian Saga

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King Rat

King Rat :The Fourth Novel of the Asian Saga - The Asian Saga

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Published: 1 July, 1999
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Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, King Rat is an heroic story of survival told by a master story-teller who lived through those years as a young soldier. Only one man in fifteen had the strength, the luck, and the cleverness simply to survive Changi. And then there was King.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780340750681
ISBN10 0340750685
Number Of Pages 416
Item Weight 293 g
Product Dimensions 130 x 198 x 30 mm
Publisher / Reseller Hodder & Stoughton
Format paperback
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A splendidly exciting and original story * Sunday Telegraph *
Terrifyingly exciting suspense * Ian Fleming *
KING RAT is the best novel in English to have come out of Japanese prisoner of war camps . . . James Clavell is a teller of stories. They are complicated and exciting, and you are desperate to know what will happen to his characters because they are like the people you know from your own life and experience, set in strange and sometimes terrible circumstances * John Simpson *

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Author's Bio

James Clavell, the son of a Royal Navy family, was educated in Portsmouth before, as a young artillery officer, he was captured by the Japanese at the Fall of Singapore. It was on this experience that his bestselling novel KING RAT was based. He maintained this oriental interest in his other great works: TAI-PAN, SHOGUN, NOBLE HOUSE and GAI JIN. Clavell lived for many years in Vancouver and Los Angeles, before settling in Switzerland, where he died in 1994.

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