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Tai-Pan: The Second Novel of the Asian Saga

Tai-Pan: The Second Novel of the Asian Saga

by JamesClavell (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $14.23
Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 688
 Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 01 Jul 1999
ISBN 10: 0340750693
ISBN 13: 9780340750698
Book Overview: The bestselling classic set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong repackaged for a new generation of readers.

Media Reviews
Packed with action . . . gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder . . . grand entertainment * New York Times *
Intensely readable and exciting * Sunday Telegraph *
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 * John Simpson *
Intensely readable and exciting * Sunday Telegraph *
Packed with action . . . gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder . . . grand entertainment * New York Times *
Author Bio
James Clavell, the son of a Royal Navy family, was educated in Portsmouth before, as a young artillery officer, he was captured by the Japanese at the Fall of Singapore. After the war Clavell worked in the film industry producing a number of successful films including To Sir with Love. He died in 1994.