James Clavell

Tai-Pan (eBook, ePUB)

The Second Novel of the Asian Saga

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781848943155
• Artikelnr.: 39229940

Autorenporträt

James Clavell, the son of a Royal Navy family, was educated in Portsmouth before, as a young artillery officer, he was captured by the Japanese at the Fall of Singapore. After the war Clavell worked in the film industry producing a number of successful films including To Sir with Love. He died in 1994.