Dark Sun

Pearl of the Orient #4

by Christopher Nicole

The early twentieth century. British rule dominates in the Far East… Brimming with ambition and optimism, twenty-year-old Larry Cairns boards the Empress of India, bound for Singapore, an island filled with promise and opportunity. For Larry, it is the chance to join the renowned trading house of Hammond and Teng and build a career for himself. While on board, Larry meets and befriends Chung Kai, the Chinese son of a rival company. But in a world of colonial snobbery and rigid social codes, it is a friendship that is met with disdain by their fellow passengers. And matters are further complicated when Larry falls in love with Kai’s sister Lan, as their clandestine relationship transgresses the strict racial codes of the colonial period. But any chance of a future with Lan is shattered when Larry marries Margaret Anstey, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. A marriage ‘of the right sort’ is just the step Larry needs to take in order to move forward in his career – but it is a decision that will have consequences years later… Meanwhile, the threat of a Japanese invasion remains ever present, and Japanese officer Colonel Kitachi Tano will stop at nothing to destroy British rule. And when he crosses paths with Larry Cairns, their lives will take a turn that no one could have expected… Spanning the decades leading up to World War Two, Dark Sun is the thrilling and epic third instalment in Christopher Nicole’s Pearl of the Orient saga. Praise for Christopher Nicole “Told with smooth authenticity” – Publishers Weekly "His action-packed war story will appeal to squadrons of readers” – Library Journal Christopher Nicole was born in 1930 in the West Indies and currently resides in the Channel Islands with his wife, Diana, who is also a novelist. He has written over 200 fiction and non-fiction books since 1957, including the best-selling, five-volume Caribee series. He primarily writes historical novels and specialises in series and sagas. Nicole has won international acclaim for his work under several pseudonyms, including Max Marlow, Andrew York, and Alan Savage.

472 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 15, 1990

About the author

Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.

On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.

As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.

He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
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Reviews

[Nigel Copeman · Rating 5 out of 5]

The survivors

Another great story by this author hence the 5 stars if you have not read the 3 books you must to see comes out the winners or are there looses.