Grey, though he grew up modestly, fervently believes in the British class system: everyone should know their place, and he knows the King’s place is at the bottom. Robin Grey, the provost marshal, hates the King and all he represents. But trading is illegal-and the King has made a formidable enemy. In the camp, everything has its price and everything is for sale. The imprisoned upper-class officers have never had to do things for themselves, and now they are reduced to wearing rags while the King’s clean shirt, gained through guts and moxie, seems like luxury in comparison. An American corporal, known as the King, has used his personality and wiles to facilitate trading with guards and locals to get needed food, supplies, even information into the camp. Officers and enlisted men, all prisoners together, yet the old hierarchies and rivalries survive. Japanese POW camp Changi, Singapore: hell on earth for the soldiers contained within its barbed wire walls. The 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
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