Tai-Pan
‘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
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
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Packed with action . . . Gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder . . . Grand entertainment
Intensely readable and exciting
Intensely readable and exciting
James Clavell is a teller of stories. They are complicated and exciting, and you are desperate to know what will happen to his characters because they are like the people you know from your own life and experience, set in strange and sometimes terrible circumstances
James Clavell is a teller of stories. They are complicated and exciting, and you are desperate to know what will happen to his characters because they are like the people you know from your own life and experience, set in strange and sometimes terrible circumstances
A fat, gusty . . . historical novel that will most probably sweep the bookstore windows on the strength of its narrative . . . Seduced by excellent period research . . . [with] scenes that hook the reader who will be drawn into this fantasy world like white fumes into a joss pipe
Unforgettable!
Clavell is, as always, a matchless tale-spinner
A fabulous epic . . . that will disturb and excite you . . . A thrilling and enticing tale of adventure and human relationships
Every five or six years there appears on the horizon a book so vast in scope, so peopled with bold, colorful characters, it eclipses other efforts . . . Such a book is Tai-Pan
