![]() ![]() As well as discovering new territories, exacting tribute from conquered peoples, laying waste the cities which resist, this policy is also a way of diffusing the rivalries between his sons and heirs and working out who should succeed the khan. So, dividing his armies, using his sons as generals of the various divisions, he sends them out simultaneously in many directions, ranging as far as modern Iran and Iraq. ![]() His emissaries are mutilated or killed his trading gestures rebuffed. Now he finds trouble rising west of the Mongolian plains. He has united the warring tribes and even taken his armies against the great cities of their oldest enemies. ![]() 1 bestselling Conqueror series, following the life and adventures of the mighty Genghis Khan The fatherless boy, exiled from his tribe, whom readers have been following in 'Wolf of the Plains' and 'Lords of the Bow', has grown into the great king, Genghis Khan. The powerful and exhilarating third novel in Conn Iggulden's No. ![]()
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