Tai-Pan by James Clavell
The bestselling classic set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong repackaged for a new generation of readers.
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 *
Intensely readable and exciting * Sunday Telegraph *
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 *
Intensely readable and exciting * Sunday Telegraph *
Packed with action . . . gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder . . . grand entertainment * New York Times *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340750698 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340750693 |
| Title | Tai-Pan |
| Author | James Clavell |
| Series | The Asian Saga |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 1999-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 688 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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