Gai-Jin (Asian Saga);

The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House€¦the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age€¦a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire€¦Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans and spies. Their fates collide in James Clavell€s latest masterpiece set in nineteenth-century Japan€“an unforgettable epic seething with betrayal and secrets, brutality and heroism, love and forbidden passions.€¦