King Rat

Name: King Rat
Author: James Clavell

by James Clavell

Allied prisoners in a Japanese camp struggle to survive brutal conditions and moral tests

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James Clavell

James Clavell was a British-Australian author whose Asian Saga novels brought feudal Japan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia to enormous popular readership. Shogun, his novel about a shipwrecked English sailor in sixteenth-century Japan, became one of the most successful novels of the 1970s.

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