King Rat | Characters
Clavell's characters dramatize his theme. The King is an American who through illicit trading with the enemy has managed to remain well-dressed and well-fed while his less enterprising fellow prisoners are ragged, starved and diseased. Many soldiers believe he is evil for taking advantage of his talent for business. He insists he is only disobeying the law of his captors; he does not steal. He makes a friend of Peter Marlowe, a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, whose family have been military officers since the early eighteenth century and who disdains "trade." Marlowe shares...
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