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King Rat
by Clavell, James
This is perhaps not Mieville’s best work but it’s certainly the most “urban fantasy” of his novels. Typical of every Mieville novel, there’s a lot of weird stuff going on...
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Book 2
Tai-pan
by Clavell, James
Dirk Straun, a pirate, smuggler, and ruthless individual, finds glory beyond his dreams as the Tai-Pan, or supreme leader, of Hong Kong.
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Book 3
Shōgun
by Clavell, James
After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century...
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Book 4
Noble House
by Clavell, James
Under the eyes of the KGB, the CIA, and the People's Republic of China, British and American businessmen maneuver for control of Hong Kong's oldest trading house in a torrid...
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Book 5
Whirlwind
by Clavell, James
Iran, during the revolution of 1979, is a dangerous place for the helicopter pilots of Noble House and their women.
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Book 6
Gai-jin
by Clavell, James
The new leader of the noble family meets a beautiful French woman in Japan in the 1860s.
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