Struan must fight to save his company and his family, or risk seeing everything he has created destroyed at the hands of his sworn enemy. Over the years, their two families will cross paths, threatening to rip both apart, with reverberations that will echo across the generations. 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. He is now the Tai-Pan-Supreme Leader-of all Tai-Pans in China.Īlong the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. Heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat action melds seamlessly with intricate historical detail and raw human emotion.Įndlessly compelling, this sweeping saga captivated the world to become not only one of the best-selling novels of all time but also one of the highest-rated television miniseries, as well as inspiring a nationwide surge of interest in the culture of Japan.ĭirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world's largest Far East trading company.

Powerful and engrossing, capturing both the rich pageantry and stark realities of life in feudal Japan, Shogun is a critically acclaimed powerhouse of a book.

Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom.Īs internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne's loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss, and he is torn between two worlds that will each be forever changed. After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen - Nippon.

Noble House by James Clavell