This is an auction for KHAN DYNASTY: THE EMPIRE OF SILVER, by Conn Iggulden.

“This is alpha-male fiction. . . . the book has much to teach about a time and a people long shrouded in legend.”—The Wall Street Journal (US)

“Well written and well researched . . . a delicious pleasure for anyone who likes roaring, violent, and dramatic historical fiction.”—Library Journal (US)

“Empire of Silver serves as confirmation that Iggulden’s majestic series has developed into an historical fiction master class.”—Yorkshire Evening Post

"Iggulden's smashing fourth instalment to his Mongol series picks up after Genghis's death as his three sons and four grandsons vie to be the Mongol leader. After son Ogedai is named khan, one of his brothers offers himself as a sacrifice; the other is dispatched to rule a distant kingdom; and the four grandsons begin to hatch schemes of their own. While the khan builds the city of Karakorum, his armies fight the Chinese in the east and discover the enemy's effective use of gunpowder against the Mongol horse archers. In the west, a mighty Mongol army commanded by Genghis's best general, Tsubodai, crushes the Russians and the Poles in a series of brilliant campaigns, and as the Mongol horde sacks the cities of Buda and Pest, only the arrival of a disastrous message from Karakorum saves Europe from destruction and Mongol domination. Add assassinations (failures and successes), jealousy, treachery, revenge, betrayal, and surprising plot twists, and Iggulden has created another rip-roaring historical that accurately depicts the cruelty of the age."

• Publishers Weekly (US)

Large format (trade) paperback 2010.

438 pages.

Very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $4.95, or $6.95 by tracked mail. If you are on rural delivery and want tracked mail, the shipping cost will be $9.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.