A tour-de-force of historical fiction, rich in detail yet eminently readable, Tai-Pan will stay with you long after the final page. Ambition, political intrigue, and love and lust weave their way throughout the novel the New York Times called, "grand entertainment.packed with action.with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder." East and West come together in an opulent and intricately plotted narrative. Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the. Struan must fight to save his company and his family, or risk seeing everything he has created destroyed at the hands of his sworn enemy. Over the years, their two families will cross paths, threatening to rip both apart, with reverberations that will echo across the generations.
Struan and Brock come to control much of England's trade with China yet neither can control their desires or their hatred of each other. War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies' wealth-the opium trade is still booming. Tyler Brock, Struan's rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan's. It is a tale set in the mid-nineteenth century about the founding of Hong Kong, told from the perspective of two ruthless adversaries who fought for control of the obscure island along mainland China the Englishman, Dirk Straud and Tyler Brook. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. He is now the Tai-Pan-Supreme Leader-of all Tai-Pans in China. Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world's largest Far East trading company.
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