 |  The Chinese Widow - James Leasor | Item number: 68740510 |
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This book is in good condition and the story line has been taken from my friends at Abe books
What would seem important to you, if you were rich beyond accounting, young, single, of immense and international power - and yet, according to the best medical opinion, doomed to die within a year? This stark, terrible and totally unexpected problem faces Robert Gunn, one of the 19th century Britain's greatest and most prosperous Far Eastern trading companies, when he returns to England, having made his fortune. What use are his world-wide possessions, without health to enjoy them? What pleasures can a life of wealth provide when there is only dark at the end of the tunnel? Gunn's tough years in the East - kidnapped by rival merchants, marooned and left to die, fighting pirates, running opium - have given him an Eastern acceptance of the fates, however harsh and cruel they may seem. And now he decides to turn his back on his past and instead create a worthwhile memorial to leave behind him; to pay back to those countries from which he has amassed his fortune something lasting and valuable in return. How does he achieve this - and at what fearful cost? Who is the Chinese widow? What is her past - and her power? How does she come to rely on Robert Gunn? James Leasor's two preceeding books in his chronicle of the Far East a century and more ago - FOLLOW THE DRUM and MANDARIN-GOLD - have been acclaimed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic. THE CHINESE WIDOW is their equal. It combines the ferocious force of the Dutch mercenaries who seek to destroy Gunn's plan; the pathos of a young woman left alone to rule a fierce and rebellious people; the pawky humour of Gunn's partner, the rough, raw Scot Macpherson; the mysterious yet efficacious practice of Chinese medicine, handed on through thousands of years. These are the threads that a master story-teller weaves into a tapestry of action, fiction based on fact, the clash of East and West and the relentless force of nature. THE CHINESE WIDOW is one of the most exciting and moving novels of the decade.
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