The Chronicles of the Wolf: A Historical Thriller of Genghis Khan

He was nine years old. He was afraid of dogs. He would become the most feared conqueror the world has ever known. In 1171, on the frozen Mongolian steppe, a boy named Temüjin stands paralyzed with fear as mastiffs circle his horse. Within days, his father will be dead—poisoned by enemies—and his entire clan will abandon his family to starve. The message carved into wood is clear: The deep water has dried up. The bright stone has crumbled. What use are the widow and her cubs? But the wolves of the steppe are about to learn a terrible lesson. The frightened boy who couldn't meet a dog's eyes is keeping a list. And he never forgets. From the wild garlic years of desperate survival to the blood-soaked plains of Dalan Balzhut, from the burning libraries of Bukhara to the final mysteries of a hidden grave, The Chronicles of the Wolf traces the forging of history's most unlikely emperor. This is not the legend. This is the truth beneath it—the price of greatness measured in the mathematics of survival, the currency of betrayal, and the terrible cost of building an empire from nothing. A chief is just a man that other men have not yet killed. In this sweeping historical thriller, debut novelist Robert delivers a Temüjin you've never encountered: a boy who learned that fear could be conquered but never forgotten, that mercy was a luxury the desperate couldn't afford, and that the hungry wolves—when they finally learned to run together—would devour the world. Some children who have nothing grow up to take everything. This is the story of the first. The greatest. The one they would call Genghis Khan.