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King RatThe epic novel of war, savagery, and survival in a Japanese POW camp by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell Japanese POW camp Changi, Singapore: hell on earth for the soldiers contained within its barbed wire walls. Officers and enlisted men, all prisoners together, yet the old hierarchies and rivalries survive. An American corporal, known as the King, has used his personality and wiles

took him home and raised him as one of his own despite his wife's misgivings

Ordinarily that should have been the end of it

it chose him

at gunpoint if necessary

The Raven prepares for his most important fight yet

a love stronger than the revolutionary fires that burn all around them

In September 1961

What he doesn't know yet is that he will find help from long-dead friends and enemies to help him sort out his life and restore his honor

also known as the Noble House

But something's not right

The story's opening is perhaps the most imagistic and at the same time eerie as Faust ever wrote

Tom Fuller—a scrupulously honest fellow