Lords of the Bow

Lords of the Bow

Published

January 2008

Publishers

UK
Harper Collins
US
Bantam
Arabic World
Arab Scientific
Bulgaria
Bard
China
Hunan
Czech Republic
Milennium
Denmark
Gyldendal
Finland
Otava
France
Presses de la Cité
Germany
Random House
Hungary
Gabo
Indonesia
Gramedia
Italy
Piemme
Korea
Sodam & Taeil
Lithuania
Tyto Alba
Poland
Papierowy
Russia
Eksmo
Serbia
Alnari
Slovenia
Ucila
Spain
La Esfera de los Libros
Sweden
Bonniers
Taiwan
Linking
Turkey
Koridor

Temujin of the Wolves has become Genghis Khan, a man who must unite the most fractious, warlike tribes on earth. He intends to forge a new nation out of the wild plains and mountains of Mongolia. It will be a bloody birth that brings a continent to its knees.

For thousands of years, his people have been kept apart by the fortress empire of the Chin, a land of vast wealth and teeming armies. His warriors have only the bow, the horse and an iron discipline born from a land of ice, hunger and death. Stone walls loom over the Mongol riders and Genghis must break the ancient enemy or see his people scattered and his dreams crushed.

As well as that ancestral foe, Genghis must reconcile the restless factions among his own generals, mediate between his ambitious brothers and cope with his own reactions to his growing sons. The young warrior has become a victorious military commander: he must now raise his people to greatness.

Lords of the Bow is epic in scope, convincing and fascinating in the narration of an extraordinary story. Above all, Genghis Khan continues to dominate the scene as he matures from the young boy of Wolf of the Plains to conqueror of nations.