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Tai-Pan by James Clavell
Editorial Reviews Synopsis:
Dick Struan, a pirate, smuggler, and ruthless individual, finds glory beyond his dreams as the Tai-Pan, or supreme leader, of Hong Kong.
From the cover:
Dirk Struan was the ruler - the Tai-pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He was also a pirate, an opium smuggler, a master manipulator of men, a ruthless intriguer and a mighty lover. Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-pan is the exciting story of a man and an island. For Dirk Struan was determined to transform the barren island called Hong Kong into the brightest jewel of the British Empire. And the opium run was the surest and most dangerous way for him to achieve riches beyond imagination...
"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
"The most stirring and exciting historical novel I have ever read"
Robin Moore, author of the French Connection
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