The Hounds of Harujin: Volume I

First, there was Attila. He was a Mongol, who wandered in from the east, and took up the sword for gold, girls and glory. Then came Genghis. He was a Mongol, who made graveyards of China and the Middle East and left his seed in half the women of Eurasia. Then came Tamerlane. He was a Mongol, that butchered from India to the shores of Europe, and terrified the Middle East for a half millennium with his curse.... Then came Harujin, who, on the crest of an energy crisis and economic collapse, raised his scimitar like a standard, and charged his horses outwards from Mongolia to usher in the new world epoch.... In Australia, the khan’s nephew is assassinated by roadside phantoms. But the khan is more concerned with the chests of his concubines than with Australian dissidence or family outrage. The Mad Queen of Queensland is livid at the death of her son; as the tensions come to a head, the khan is forced to reach out to his estranged son, and bring him back from a Buddhist monastery to solve a murder....