TAI-PAN

A companion to Shogun code 83455, this international bestseller is set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s. It 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, a master manipulator of men, a ruthless intriguer and a mighty lover. Gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder, you are desperate to know what will happen to the characters because they are like people you know from your own life and experience yet set in strange and sometimes terrible circumstances. 2017 reprint of the 1966 original text in facsimile. 679pp, paperback.