This is a sequel to the author's bestselling Sea of Poppies from the Ibis Trilogy. The novel goes ahead where it closed in the first part, but with new characters. It represents a fair account of opium export to china. The British pushed for export and King of China resisted it. A Parsi trader, Berham, amid the news of ban on import of opium in China, puts his all earnings on stake and travels to China on his ship loaded with opium. The book gives a very lively insight into the trade practices, the associations & their interactions with the Chinese authorities. The story is set just before the opium war with China.
