It is 1494, and the new ruler of Ferghana, Babur, faces a seemingly impossible challenge.
They live in London..
They have written seven books including, Cleopatra and Antony, Taj Mahal, and Before the Fallout.
About the Author: Alex Rutherford is the pen name for Diana Preston and her husband, Michael, whose nonfiction has been awarded the Los Angeles Times Science and Technology prize and been praised worldwide.
Full of breathtaking bloodshed and treachery, this is historical adventure at its very best.
Already an acclaimed international bestseller, Raiders from the North chronicles the rise and fall of one of the most powerful and magnificent dynasties the world has ever known.
But he is dangerously young to inherit a crown, and treasonous plots, tribal rivalries, rampaging armies, and ruthlessly ambitious enemies will threaten his destiny, his kingdom, even his survival.
He is determined to equal his great ancestor, Tamburlaine, whose conquests stretched from Delhi to the Mediterranean, from wealthy Persia to the wild Volga.
It is 1494, and the new ruler of Ferghana, Babur, faces a seemingly impossible challenge