James Clavell

A bold English adventurer; an invincible Japanese warlord; a beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love....

The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House; the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shōgun, battles to usher his country into the modern age....

It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland....

Set in Hong Kong in 1963, the action of Noble House spans scarcely more than a week, but these are days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial double dealing....

The sixth book in James Clavell's epic Asian Saga tells the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979 - three weeks of passion, self-sacrifice, and heartbreak....

The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory....

When the shah is thrown out of Iran, the nation's turmoil becomes world headlines....