num_pages: 384
description: A conflict between a powerful black marketeer and his fellow prisoners at a Japanese POW camp leads to tragedy
language: English
title: King Rat
titlecomplete: King Rat
genres: Classics, Adventure, Historical, World War II, Japan, Asia, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 39083
places: Southeast Asia, Singapore
series: Asian Saga: Publication Order, Asian Saga: Chronological Order
publisher: Delacorte Press