The Nine Dragons

Hong Kong, 1997. To taipans and gangsters alike, the day of reckoning is fast approaching, when this jewel of Western-style capitalism will fall into Communist hands, and nothing will ever be the same again. For Duncan Mackintosh, taipan of the last great independent British trading company in the city, and his daughter Victoria, it is a time of daring opportunity--and grave danger. But Duncan, deeply involved with a mysterious power broker and a brilliant Chinese mistress, is blind to the peril...until it's too late.

In one instant, Duncan will be gone, and Victoria, thrust into the role of taipan, will find she's inherited his business--and the secrets that got him killed. Now, the Dragon Daughter must fight to survive in a world of deceit and double cross, where the cost of failure will be more than her company. It will be her life.