I designed a book cover for James Clavell’s “King Rat”. The novel is about a black market salesmen in a prison camp during the Vietnam war, the envy of the camp. The rat placed upside-down works as an analogy to the constant efforts of the camp leaders and his fellow prisoners looking to knock him off of his “throne”. It was fairly challenging to condense the plot and action of an interesting novel into a simple logo and to fit that with text appropriately.
http://i.imgur.com/FSo9l6G.png