Name: Tai-Pan
ISBN: 9780385314480

James Clavell

Tai-Pan

Eric De La Garza

'Intensely readable and exciting' Sunday Telegraph Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. This is the story of his fight to establish himself and his dynasty as the undisputed masters of the Orient. 'Packed with action . . . gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder . . . grand entertainment' New York Times

The Second Novel of the Asian Saga

Ben S

Alan

Rory O'K

Alice Hyman

Yulande Lindsay

Lyn Pritchard

Kevin Spachuk

Andrew Kerr

Laura Luchian

Bill Mazza

Christian Bering Pedersen

Bay Cos

Alberto Cabas Vidani

""It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler...Tai-Pan!"" "From the Trade Paperback edition."

Jose Vera

Alex Deee

Roberto Mateu