<i><br></i>The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House&#8230;the direct<i> </i>descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern<i> </i>age&#8230;a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire<i>&#8230;</i>Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners<i>, gai-jin,</i> torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans and spies. Their fates collide in James Clavell&#8217;s latest masterpiece set in nineteenth-century Japan&#8212;an unforgettable epic seething with betrayal and secrets, brutality and heroism, love and forbidden passions.&#8230;