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JAMES CLAVELL

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Publisher:
HODDER
Year of publication:
1999
Subject:
Contemporary fiction
ISBN:
978-0-340-75069-8
Pages:
679
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Set in the days of the founding of Hong Kong, this work presents the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the trading company in the Far East, who is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. It presents the story of his fight to establish himself and his dynasty as the undisputed masters of the Orient.

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