Zusatztext Packed with action . . . gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin! treachery and conspiracy! sex and murder . . . grand entertainment Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The bestselling classic set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong repackaged for a new generation of readers. Zusammenfassung The bestselling classic set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong repackaged for a new generation of readers.

Packed with action . . . gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder . . . grand entertainment

Vorwort
The bestselling classic set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong repackaged for a new generation of readers.

Autorentext
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.