Author: James Clavell
Publisher: Delta
Keywords: saga, asian, pan, tai
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2009-05-19
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0385343256
ISBN-13: 9780385343251

It is the early 19th 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 Straun, 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!

Author: James Clavell
Publisher: Hodder Headline
Keywords: whirlwind, story, love, escape
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 1999-07-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0340654163
ISBN-13: 9780340654163

Over the years, James Clavell produced a phenomenal series of critically acclaimed bestsellers known collectively as the Asian Saga--King Rat, Tai-Pan, Shgun, Noble House, Gai-Jin. Another novel, Whirlwind, was set in the violent turmoil of Iran after the exile of the Shah in1979. Caught in this shifting world of fanaticism, ambition, duplicity, and death are the foreign helicopter pilots who service Iran’s oil fields. Their one objective is to make a bold, concerted escape to safety across the Gulf. In Whirlwind, Clavell told the full story of the three weeks it took them to achieve th

Author: James Clavell
Publisher: Dell
Keywords: pan, tai
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 1986-09-01
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0440184622
ISBN-13: 9780440184621

Dirk Straun, a pirate, smuggler, and ruthless individual, finds glory beyond his dreams as the Tai-Pan, or supreme leader, of Hong Kong. Reissue.

Author: James Clavell
Publisher: Delta
Keywords: house, noble
Number of Pages: 1152
Published: 2009-05-19
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0385343264
ISBN-13: 9780385343268

The setting is Hong Kong, 1963. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial double-dealing and natural catastrophes—fire, flood, landslide. Yet they are days filled as well with all the mystery and romance of Hong Kong—the heart of Asia—rich in every trade…money, flesh, opium, power.

Author: James Clavell
Publisher: Delta
Keywords: jin, gai
Number of Pages: 1104
Published: 2009-05-19
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0385343272
ISBN-13: 9780385343275

The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House…the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age…a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire…Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans and spies. Their fates collide in James Clavell’s latest masterpiece set in nineteenth-century Japan—an unforgettable epic seething with betrayal and sec

Author: James Clavell
Publisher: Dell
Keywords: shogun
Number of Pages: 1210
Published: 1976-06-01
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0440178002
ISBN-13: 9780440178002

An explorer in seventeenth-century Japan, ambitious Englishman Blackthorne encounters the powerful and power-hungry Lord Toranaga and Catholic convert Lady Mariko. Reissue.

Author: James Clavell
Publisher: Hodder Paperback
Keywords: revolution, iranian, novel, whirlwind
Number of Pages: 1248
Published: 1999-12-02
List price: $18.60
ISBN-10: 0340766182
ISBN-13: 9780340766187

"Whirlwind" is the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979: three weeks of fanaticism, passion, self-sacrifice and heartbreak. Caught between the revolutionaries and the forces of international intrigue is a team of professional pilots. They are ordered to flee to safety with their helicopters. Two of them, both Europeans, have Iranian wives whom they love beyond safety and politics.