The Moghul Quintet
Descended from Genghis Khan and Timur (Tamburlaine), the Moghuls were nomadic warriors from Central Asia. Hungry for new lands, in the sixteenth century they swept into India to found an empire that would one day stretch from the mountains and saffron fields of Kashmir and the high passes of Afghanistan to the blue ocean near Goa and the steamy jungles of Bengal. Their epic story is told for the first time in these five novels.
Spanning two hundred turbulent years and the lives of six very different emperors, the Moghul series will bring to life a people whose skill and bravery on the battlefield would be matched by their love of luxury, their passion for beauty and their unbridled ambition. For all their brilliance, however, the Moghuls were deeply flawed. The poison of jealousy seeped corrosively down through the generations as sons plotted against their fathers, brother murdered brother and empresses and would-be empresses schemed and seduced in pursuit of the Moghuls’ age old mantra, ‘Throne or Coffin’.
About RAIDERS FROM THE NORTH
The first book, EMPIRE OF THE MOGHUL: RAIDERS FROM THE NORTH, introduces Babur, a charismatic warrior and ruler of Ferghana, a kingdom north of Afghanistan, a leader determined to emulate his ancestors at all costs…
1494, and the new ruler of Ferghana, twelve-year-old Babur, faces a seemingly impossible challenge. Babur is determined to equal his great ancestor, Tamburlaine, whose conquests stretched from Delhi to the Mediterranean, from wealthy Persia to the wild Volga. But he is dangerously young to inherit a crown and treasonous plots, tribal rivalries, rampaging armies and ruthlessly ambitious enemies will threaten his destiny, his kingdom, even his survival.
BROTHERS AT WAR
The thrilling story of the second great Moghul Emperor, whose fatal flaws threatened everything his dynasty had fought for.
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, unbeknown 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.