Marlowe's languages, intelligence, honesty, and personality cause King to befriend him and attempt to involve him in black market deals, which bring Marlowe to the attention of Robin Grey, a British officer and Provost Marshal of the camp, who has developed a Javert-like obsession with King and hopes to arrest him for violating camp regulations. Marlowe comes to the attention of the "King" - an American corporal who has become the most successful trader and black marketeer in Changi - when King sees him conversing in Malay. Peter Marlowe, a young British RAF Flight Lieutenant, has been a P.O.W. Two characters from King Rat also appear in Noble House (1981). King Rat was the first book published of Clavell's sweeping series, the Asian Saga, and the fourth chronologically. One of the three major characters, Peter Marlowe, is based upon Clavell. Clavell was a prisoner in the Changi Prison camp, where the novel is set. Set during World War II, the novel describes the struggle for survival of American, Australian, British, Dutch and New Zealander prisoners of war in a Japanese camp in Singapore. King Rat is a 1962 novel by James Clavell and the author's literary debut.
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