James Clavell first published his novel Shōgun ... which is set not in the Far East but the Middle East. Whirlwind takes place in the tumultuous setting of Iran in 1979, when the Shah is disposed ...
In 1981 James Clavell mentioned his desire to write a book that would be the sequel to ShÅ gun, but he ended up writing his other novel Whirlwind instead. James Clavell intended Gai-Jin to be ...