Only a few can hold on to the top of power, because being a Tai-Pan is both joy and pain, might and—at the same time—loneliness, a life that becomes an endless battle.
Only the Tai-Pan laughs at a злой fate and challenges it. And then… a decision comes. The story of Dirk Struan, the Tai-Pan of all Europeans who trade with China—is more than the story of one man.
It is an account of the collision of two worlds, of the time that flows through them differently, and of the truth that has many faces. Action, action, and once again action… What isn’t here: love that knows no limits, and an ancient, irreconcilable feud; loyalty and treachery; sin and redemption… This book is of the kind you can’t put down until you read the last line.
The novel is based on real historical events from the period of British colonization of the Chinese island of Hong Kong.