James Clavell's Tai-Pan

<br>[Read by Gildart Jackson]<br><br> #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author James Clavell's works have become beloved modern classics. This critically acclaimed historical novel is another fine example of a master at work.<br><br> It is the early nineteenth century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Struan, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power - and to make himself supreme ruler: Tai-Pan!<br><br>