What is the author's style in King Rat by James Clavell?

The novel is intended for adults, and the language used assumes a high school – or higher – education level. That having been said, for the most part the descriptive passages are written in an easy to understand, entertaining manner while the dialogue is fast paced and usually quite tight. There are very few long “speeches” in the novel, and each of the major (as well as several of the minor) characters have distinctive “voices” which become easily recognizable as the novel progresses. Although there is very little profanity used in the course of the narrative and there are no explicit sexual scenes in the novel, there are a number of scenes in which extreme violence and some of the other horrors that are a part of life in Changi are graphically presented, and these scenes will be disturbing to more sensitive readers.