Tai-Pan Second novel of the Asian Saga

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 James Clavell is a teller of stories. They are complicated and exciting, and you are desperate to know what will happen to his characters because they are like the people you know from your own life and experience, set in strange and sometimes terrible circumstances -- John Simpson