Tai-Pan

"Blood and guts fiction is back... A superb book" - Life Magazine

"A rousing, roistering giant of a novel" - Ernest K. Gann

"Packed with action... gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder... fresh and vigorous... grand entertainment." - The New York Times

"Every five or six years there appears on the horizon a book so vast in scope, so peopled with bold, colorful characters, it eclipses other efforts of the time. Such a book is TAI-PAN." - Pittsburgh Press