Tai-Pan

There can only be one Tai-Pan.

Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the worlds largest Far East trading company. He is now the Tai-Pan--Supreme Leader--of all Tai-Pans in China. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. Tyler Brock, Struans rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struans. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies wealth--the opium trade is still booming. War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain. Struan and Brock come to control much of Englands trade with China yet neither can control their desires or their hatred of each other. Over the years, their two families will cross paths, threatening to rip both apart, with reverberations that will