Fusing historical events with a gripping fictional narrative, this first
book in the Mongoliad trilogy reveals a secret history of Europe in the
thirteenth century.
As the Mongols swept across Asia and were poised to invade Europe in
1241, a small band of warriors, inheritors of an ancient secret
tradition, conceived a desperate plan to stop the attack. They must kill
the Khan of Khans; if they fail, all of Christendom will be destroyed.
In the late nineteenth century a mysterious group of English martial
arts aficionados provided Sir Richard F. Burton, well-known expert on
exotic languages and historical swordsmanship, a collection of long-lost
manuscripts to translate--the lost chronicles of this desperate fight to
save Europe. Burton's translations were lost, until a team of amateur
archaeologists discovered them in the ruins of a mansion in Trieste.
From the translations and from the original source material, the epic
tale of The Mongoliad was recreated.