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The Singapore Grip
Book 3 in the Empire Trilogy series.
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Singapore, 1937. Matthew Webb arrives from England to join the Blackett family’s rubber business and encounters a colonial economy built on trade, labour and assumptions of permanent British power. His idealism, Walter Blackett’s commercial calculations and competing relationships with Joan Blackett and the Eurasian Vera Chiang place private desire inside the machinery of empire.
As Japanese forces advance through Malaya, business leaders and officials continue to protect markets, status and ceremony even when military defeat becomes unavoidable. The novel follows the colony toward February 1942, using the fall of Singapore to expose the distance between imperial confidence and the political and human realities it has refused to recognise.
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