Anyone seeking to stop them cannot do so without enlisting the aid of Hong Kong's criminal underworld. Meanwhile, Chinese communists, Taiwanese nationalists, and Soviet spies illegally vie for influence in Hong Kong while the British government seeks to prevent their actions. To this end, he seeks partnership with American millionaire Lincoln Bartlett, while trying to ward off his arch-rival Quillan Gornt, who seeks to destroy Struan's once and for all. Ian Dunross, the 10th tai-pan of Struan's and a descendant of founder Dirk Struan, struggles to rescue the company from the precarious financial position left by his predecessor. Noble House is set in 1963 and serves as a sequel to Clavell's novel Tai-Pan.
The miniseries updates the storyline of the novel to the 1980s. In 1988, it was adapted as a television miniseries for NBC, starring Pierce Brosnan. The novel is over a thousand pages long, and contains dozens of characters and numerous intermingling plot lines. The "Noble House" in the title is the nickname of Struan's, the trading company first introduced in Clavell's Tai-Pan. It is the fourth book published in Clavell's Asian Saga and is chronologically the fifth book in the series. Clavell has made himself the king of super-adventure thrillers.Noble House is a novel by James Clavell, published in 1981 and set in Hong Kong in 1963. only terms like colossal, gigantic, titanic, incredible, unbelievable, gargantuan, are properly descriptive. a seamless marvel of pure storytelling.” - Cleveland Plain Dealer not only is it as long as life, it’s also as rich with possibilities.” - New York Times
a book that you can get lost in for weeks. Yet they are days filled as well with all the mystery and romance of Hong Kong-the heart of Asia- rich in every trade. 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.
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