Synopses & Reviews
Review
"In this first novel, the author would have us believe that a 16-year-old American, son of a former Taipan of Shanghai, successfully used old-fashioned capitalistic knowhow to control the entire Taiwanese black market as a prelude to organizing the largest drug-smuggling operation in history, becoming the most powerful person in all Asia. No way. The publisher would then have us believe that the author is as satisfactory a storyteller as his professional contemporaries such as James Clavell and Herbert Wouk. Not so." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)