The heir to the magnificent English trading company the Noble House; the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Sh?gun battling to usher his country into the modern age; a beautiful young Frenchwoman forever torn between ambition and desire?their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners gai-jin and 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 masterpiece set in nineteenth-century Japan?an unforgettable epic seething with betrayal and secrets brutality and heroism love and forbidden passions.
