Manchu

Francis Arrowsmith
Ex-Jesuit, genius with powder and cannon-and spy. For thirty years he pits his strength and cunning against the shifting loyalties of a crumbling empire. His path to fame and fortune is difficult and dangerous – and so are the women who hunger after him.

Manchu
The mighty recreation of China under the Ming. This great international bestseller will transport you back.. to the savagery and the passion, to the magnificence, to the sensuality, to the great adventure of the last days of a dying dynasty.