Tai-Pan - James Clavell

Written by James Clavell
Read by John Lee
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Series; Asian Saga, book 2
Length: 25hrs 48min
Publisher: Books on Tape (Random House), 2007

It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. The characters are all loosely based on actual people - as are their trading companies

AudioFile…..
“In the early nineteenth century, a giant of an Englishman sets out to turn the desolate, rocky island of Hong Kong into a British power and to make himself the island’s ruler? the Tai Pan. So begins James Clavell’s sequel to Shogun, his 1960s best-selling Asian saga. Books on Tape has produced a new audio book of Tai Pan, narrated by John Lee, which is indisputably worthy of its special ‘Collector’s Edition’ label. American John Lee enlivens the long, involving story with a stunning range of voices and characterizations. Pitch perfect accents make the personalities that Lee portrays unusually vivid. His use of inflection and conversational pacing contributes to giving the listener an experience that is as visual as it is auditory. A production to savor.” Winner of an AUDIOFILE Earphones Award

This is not the latest recording but I agree with Audio File’s critique of John Lee.

I made no attempt to put this in chapters, just let InAudible cut where it liked.