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KING RAT

JAMES CLAVELL

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Publisher:
HODDER
Year of publication:
1999
Subject:
Classic fiction
ISBN:
978-0-340-75068-1
Pages:
408
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In Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, only one man in fifteen had the strength, the luck and the cleverness to survive. Food was scarce and the conditions intolerable but there were ways to ease the suffering if you knew the right man. King was that man, but he had his price and in a camp notorious for cruelty, injustice and corruption, he was hated above all men.

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