Genghis: Bones of the Hills: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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From the author of the bestselling The Dangerous Book for Boys

From Conn Iggulden, #1 bestselling author of six historical epics and coauthor ofthe international sensation The Dangerous Book for Boys, comes a magnificent newwork of fiction. Here, the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan, stalked by enemies seenand unseen and plagued by a divided family, leads a sprawling force of horsemen beyondthe realm of their known world. He will bring a storm to Arab lands and face thearmies of the shah in all their strength.

From the fierce cold plains of Mongoliato the Korean Peninsula, Genghis’s brothers, sons, and commanders have made emperorsbow, slaughtering vast armies of fighting men. But as Genghis enters a strange newland of towering mountains and arid desert, he stirs an enemy greater than any hehas met before. Under his command, Shah Ala-ud-Din Mohammed has thousands of fierceArab warriors, teeming cavalry, and terrifying armored elephants. When Genghis strikes,the Arabs prove their mettle. On the verge of defeat, Genghis is forced to leavehis own vast encampment, and the women and children in it, in the path of an enraged,savage enemy.

While the Mongols—men, women, and children—fight back, as secret assassinsare sent into the night, another battle is taking shape. Two of Genghis’s sons, Jochiand Chagatai, are steeped in enmity. Warriors choose between them, and a murderercommits an unspeakable crime. Soon the most powerful man in the world, who has broughtdevastation to this land, must choose a successor. And when he does, it will touchoff the most bitter conflict of all.

In a novel that ranges from the fertile landsof the Chin to the dust and rock of Afghanistan, Conn Iggulden weaves the epic storyof history’s most enigmatic conqueror —those who feared him, those who defied him,and those whose bones he left behind.