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Title: This Book Will Grab You and Hold On!
Review: This novel will grab you in the first five pages like no other I have read. Although some of the subplots become a bit Byzantine, you hold your breath through the twists and turns of a crisis where the firm fights a corporate takeover, kidnapping, murder, and love affairs.The novel Nobel House is all the more interesting because it is based on a fictional version of the trading giant Jardine Matheson: a company which was founded by the colorful opium smuggler/Taipan William Jardine in the 1830's and 40's in Canton and later Hong Kong (he was called the Iron Headed Old Rat by the Chinese). Jardine's decendents persently control this company which employs over 200,000 people around the world.
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