Tai-Pan: The Second Novel of the Asian Saga

'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

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• ISBN: 9780340750698
• Number of pages: 688
• Weight: 477g
• Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 54 mm