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Clavell J., Shogun. A novel of Japan — 1993

A bold English adventuer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in a mighty saga of a time and place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust and the struggle for power. Superbly crafted...grips the reader like a riptide...gets the juices flowing! -- Washington Star. Exciting, totally absorbing...be prepared for late nights, meals unlasting, buisness unattended... -- Philadelphia Inquirer. Adventure and action, the suspense of danger, shocking, touching human relationships...a climactic human story.

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Clavell`s J., Whirlwind — 1987

The adventure story is set in revolutionary Iran, between February 9 and March 4, 1979, long before the hostage crisis began. I've tried to make it seem as possible-but it is fiction, with imaginary characters and many imaginary places...

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Clavell J., Noble House — 1988 ([International Bestseller])

Over one hundred years have passed since Dirk Struan founded Hong Kong—s oldest trading company. But now, the Noble House is in danger. As Hong Kong itself becomes the deadly playground of the CIA, the KGB and the People—s Republic of China, rival tai-pans, seeking revenge for blood feuds over a century old, gather for the kill.

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Clavell J., Tai-Pan — 2004

Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men, a ruthless intriguer and a mighty lover. 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!

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Clavell J., King Rat — 1988 (The International Bestrseller)

Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, King Rat is an heroic story of survival told by a master story-teller who lived through those years as a young soldier. Only one man in fifteen had the strength, the luck, and the cleverness simply to survive Changi. And then there was King.

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