4/5 Stars So I suppose most people might think this is the China Mieville debut novel, but in actuality, it’s James Clavell’s debut novel. It’s about a Japanese prisoner of war camp on Singapore in the closing year of the war. Some 10,000 English, Australian, and American servicemen are imprisoned in the camp with Japanese overcommanders and prison guards chosen by the units themselves. It’s kind of like an unfunny mix of Hogan’s Heroes, Catch-22, and The Great Escape. That’s not to say that it’s […]