Empire of the Moghul: The Tainted Throne - Couverture souple

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, 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.

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What could be more fascinating to read about than the rise of a great empire?

'A totally absorbing narrative filled with authentic historical characters and sweeping action set in an age of horrifying but magnificent savagery. The writing is as compelling as the events described and kept me eagerly leaping from one page to the next' Wilbur Smith

Alex Rutherford's Empire of the Moghul series tells the bloody, brutal and compelling story of the Moghul Emperors of Central Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Now, in the fourth Moghul novel, we begin to see the Empire's self-destruction; a dazzling and compelling story of paternal control, filial betrayl, envy, doubt and conspiracy.