Plus, there has been a children's book about tough faeries, Tollins a novella, Blackwater, for 2006 World Book Day and the title with which his name is most readily associated, The Dangerous Book for Boys, co-authored with his younger brother Hal, which has sold four million copies and spawned a whole industry of spin-offs. The fourth instalment of the latter series, Empire of Silver, is out this month. Since his The Gates of Rome appeared in 2003, he has produced a 400-page-plus historical novel every year – that's four of his "Emperor" books (about Julius Caesar) and three in his "Conqueror" series about Genghis Khan – totalling three million in sales. This is historical fiction of the first order.By anybody's standards, Conn Iggulden is a staggeringly prolific author.
Building on the fragments of Genghis's life, Iggulden weaves a spellbinding story of an exotic and "unforgiving land" and the enigmatic young man-charismatic, a brilliant tactician and capable "of utter ruthlessness"-who sets out to tame it.
As his fame spreads, Temujin launches an ambitious campaign to unite the Mongol tribes "after a thousand years of warfare" into a single people, defeat the Tartars and invade China. After assembling a core of these "men scorned by all the others," Temujin begins raiding Tartar camps. Left behind without resources when the tribe migrates, the family struggles to survive the harsh environment, and Temujin dreams of gathering similar outcasts-wanderers and herdsmen-into a new tribe. When his father is killed by Tartar raiders before Temujin reaches manhood, a rival claims the tribe and banishes Temujin's family. Future conqueror Temujin-"a man of iron"-is born to the khan (ruler) of a fierce Mongol tribe that roams central Asia's steppes in the 12th century. Author of the bestselling Emperor series on the life of Julius Caesar, Iggulden turns to another of history's great conquerors, Genghis Khan, for a new series of brilliantly imagined and addictive historical fiction.
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