Raiders from the North
(Empire of the Moghul #1)
The Epic story of one of
the most powerful empires in history. The mighty Empire of the Moghuls burst out
of Central Asia into India in the sixteenth century. The first in a compelling
new series of novels, Raiders from the North tells the largely unknown story of
the rise and fall of the Mogul dynasties.
It is 1494 when the ruler
of Ferghana dies in an extraordinary accident. His only son, Babur, faces a
seemingly impossible challenge. Babur is determined to live up to the example
of his legendary ancestor, Tamburlaine, whose conquests transformed the face of
the earth from Delhi to the Mediterranean, from wealthy Persia to the
wildernesses along the Volga. But Babur is dangerously young to inherit a
kingdom.
Before Babur can summon
enough warlords to declare him the rightful king, plots against his crown, even
his life, are hatching. And soon, he will discover that even the bravest and
most fearless leader can be betrayed. With the wisest of advisers and most
courageous of warriors by his side, Babur can achieve a great destiny and found
an empire in India, but every step of his journey will be fraught with danger.
Set in a world of tribal
rivalries, rampaging armies, and ruthlessly ambitious enemies, Raiders from the
North is historical adventure at its very best.
Brothers At War
(Empire of the Moghul #2)
The second enthralling
installment in Alex Rutherford's Empire of the Moghul series.
1530, Agra, Northern India.
Humayun, the newly-crowned second Moghul Emperor, is a fortunate man. His
father, Babur, has bequeathed him wealth, glory and an empire which stretches a
thousand miles south from the Khyber pass; he must now build on his legacy, and
make the Moghuls worthy of their forebear, Tamburlaine. But, unbeknownst to
him, Humayun is already in grave danger. His half-brothers are plotting against
him; they doubt that he has the strength, the will, the brutality needed to
command the Moghul armies and lead them to still-greater glories. Perhaps they
are right. Soon Humayun will be locked in a terrible battle: not only for his
crown, not only for his life, but for the existence of the very empire itself.
Ruler of the World
(Empire of the Moghul #3)
Alex Rutherford’s
internationally bestselling series continues with the story of the third great
Moghul emperor, Akbar, leader of a triumphant dynasty that contained the seeds
of its own destruction.
Akbar, ruler of a sixth of
the world’s people, colossally rich and utterly ruthless, was a contemporary of
Elizabeth I, but infinitely more powerful. He extended his empire over much of
Asia, skillfully commanding tens of thousands of men, elephants, and innovative
technology. And despite the unimaginable bloodshed that resulted from it, his
rule was based on universal religious tolerance.
However, Akbar’s home life
was more complicated. He defied family, nobles, and mullahs to marry a
beautiful Rajput princess, whose people he had conquered; but she hated Akbar
and turned Salim, his eldest son, against him. What’s more, as any Moghul
prince could inherit his father’s crown and become emperor, his sons were
brought up to be intensely competitive and suspicious of each other: to see
each other as rivals for the greatest prize of all. And, as Salim grew to
manhood, the relationship between father and son became tainted by rebellion
and competition to be the greatest Moghul of them all.
The Tainted Throne
(Empire of the Moghul #4)
The brutal battle for power
continues in the fourth book in the epic Empire of the Moghul series.
Agra, India, 1606.
Jahangir, the triumphant Moghul Emperor and ruler of most of the Indian
subcontinent, is doomed. No amount of wealth and ruthlessness can protect him
from his sons' desire for power. The glorious Moghul throne is worth any amount
of bloodshed and betrayal; once Jahangir raised troops against his own father;
now he faces a bloody battle with Khurram, the ablest of his warring sons.
Worse is to come. Just as
the heirs of Timur the Great share intelligence, physical strength and utter ruthlessness,
they also have a great weakness for wine and opium. Once Jahangir is tempted,
his talented wife, Mehrunissa, is only too willing to take up the reins of
empire. And with Khurram and his half-brothers each still determined to be
their father's heir, the savage battle for the Moghul throne will be more
ferocious than even Timur could have imagined...
The Serpent's Tooth
(Empire of the Moghul #5)
The fifth in a powerful and
epic series of novels about the ruthless warrior emperors who ruled much of
central Asia through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The Moghul emperors are
still bloodthirsty and entirely ruthless; they control a quarter of the world's
population and have wealth beyond imagining. But this is the final flowering of
a doomed empire and, while Shah Jahan mourns his dead wife and obsesses over
the Taj Mahal, her monument, his son Aurangzeb is planning to take his father's
throne, by any means necessary.
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