Clavell, James

King Rat

This is perhaps not Mieville’s best work but it’s certainly the most “urban fantasy” of his novels. Typical of  every Mieville novel, there’s a lot of weird stuff going on...

Tai-pan

Dirk Straun, a pirate, smuggler, and ruthless individual, finds glory beyond his dreams as the Tai-Pan, or supreme leader, of Hong Kong.

Shōgun

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century...

Noble House

Under the eyes of the KGB, the CIA, and the People's Republic of China, British and American businessmen maneuver for control of Hong Kong's oldest trading house in a torrid...

Whirlwind

Iran, during the revolution of 1979, is a dangerous place for the helicopter pilots of Noble House and their women.

Gai-jin

The new leader of the noble family meets a beautiful French woman in Japan in the 1860s.