Gai-Jin (Asian Saga)

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The heir to the magnificent English trading company the Noble Housethe directdescendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modernagea beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desireTheir lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners gai-jin torn apart by greed idealism and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats assassins courtesans and spies. Their fates collide in James Clavells latest masterpiece set in nineteenth-century Japanan unforgettable epic seething with betrayal and secrets brutality and heroism love and forbidden passions.