Clash of Honour - Softcover

Mendelsohn, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853750077 ISBN 13: 9781853750076

Publisher: Prion Books Ltd (formerly Multimedia Books Ltd), 1990

Synopsis

The new paperback from Robert Mendelsohn tells a timeless story of honour, betrayal and revenge, set against a fascinating portrait of Japanese life and culture.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Mendelsohn's debut is an engrossing page-turner, with solid character development and a surprising denouement. When Singapore fell in 1942, the Japanese took Lt. Derek Pritchard as a prisoner of war. Not long after, while he and another captured Englishman were pawns in a mysterious Japanese secret mission, he was killed in Thailand. Now, in 1975, his daughter Anna has come to Singapore to wreak her family's vengeance on Yoshiro Katsumata, the unsuspecting son of the officer she blames for her father's death. As readers gradually learn, however, the events surrounding Pritchard's death were not exactly as officially represented. Mendelsohn quickly captures the reader's attention with his smooth and easy style and, through a series of well-integrated flashbacks, unfolds the story of Pritchard's final days in parallel with Anna's mission of revenge. Most of the flashbacks consist of the reminiscences of either Pritchard's fellow captive, Jimmy Hedges, or Yoshiro's father's former commanding officer. It is through the stories of the latter that Yoshiro, who has been seduced by Anna, learns her true identity, a revelation that shatters his orderly life. In the end, the long-hidden truth about the way Derek Pritchard died is ironic proof of the old adage that revenge is indeed a bitter dish.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Prion Books Ltd (formerly Multimedia Books Ltd)
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1853750077
• ISBN 13: 9781853750076
• Binding: Paperback