Taipan, chronologically speaking, picks up where shogun left off, set in 18th c. Like most people, the first james clavell novel i read that is, listened too was shogun, his epic novel about feudal japan as witnessed through the eyes of a stranded englishman. With the proceeds from the movie sale for king rat, it gave him the money he required to write tai pan. Shogun was his third published book but first in chronological order. A major bestseller, by 1990 the book had sold 15 million copies worldwide.
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