Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia. Only one man in 15 had the strength, the luck, and the cleverness to survive Changi. King was that man.
In the closed society of Japan in 1862, a bitter battle for commercial supremacy rages between the Struan and Brock trading houses. Young Malcolm Struan confronts the complex politics of the Japanese Court and the samurai of the warlords to succeed in love.