THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

'Bravo; this is a big, complex and utterly involving portrait of 19th-century China' THE TIMES

The internationally bestselling author portrays the great clash of East and West in his new epic: China

China in the nineteenth century: a proud and ancient empire forbidden to foreigners. The West desires Chinese tea above all other things but lacks the silver to buy it. Instead, western adventurers resort to smuggling opium in exchange.

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