Shogun

Shogun is the 1st book in the Asian Saga: Chronological Order Series. Shogun presents an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Starting with his shipwreck on this most alien of shores, this novel charts Blackthorne's rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the heights of trusted advisor and eventually, Samurai. Clavell seems to creep inside the very soul of the land and the people. - Boston Herald Shogun is huge, exotic, blood-stained canvas of sixteenth century but still medieval Japan, rival warlords and proselytising Jesuits, geishas, seppuku, samurai with a death-with and a shipwrecked Elizabethan. - Guardian It has power, it has violence, subtely and lots, lots more... Clavell never puts a foot wrong... Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightly. - Daily Mirror