Overview
The bestselling classic set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong repackaged for a new generation of readers.
''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
- | Author: James Clavell
- | Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- | Publication Date: Jul 01, 1999
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780340750698
- | ISBN-10: 0340750693
