

Struan and Brock come to control much of England’s trade with China yet neither can control their desires or their hatred of each other.

War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies’ wealth-the opium trade is still booming. Tyler Brock, Struan’s rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan’s. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. He is now the Tai-Pan-Supreme Leader-of all Tai-Pans in China. The sweeping epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavellĭirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company.
