Escape

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. He spent the rest of World War II in the infamous Changi prison. It was on his experience in Changi that his bestselling novel King Rat was based. The interest in Asia, its people and culture continued with Tai-Pan, a tale of Canton and Hong Kong in the mid-19th century and the founding of an Anglo-Chinese trading company, Struans. This was followed by the classic Shogun, the story of Japan during the period when Europe began to make an impact on the island people of the Rising Sun. Noble House, the fourth novel in the Asian saga published in 1981, continued the story of Struans, the Hong Kong trading company, as the winds of change blew through the far East. Whirlind, set in Iran, continued the saga. His last novel, the bestselling tour de force Gai-Jin, is set in Japan in 1862, when the Tai-Pan of the Noble House seeks to profit from the decline of the Shogunate. Escape, which is the love story from Whirlwind, was published after his death and originated as the basis for a film script. After living for many years in Vancouver and around the world, James Clavell lived for some time in Europe, where he died in 1994.Clavell, James is the author of 'Escape' with ISBN 9780340654163 and ISBN 0340654163.