Download or read book The Tainted Throne written by Alex Rutherford and published by Headline Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could be more fascinating to read about than the rise of a great empire? 'A totally absorbing narrative filled with authentic historical characters and sweeping action set in an age of horrifying but magnificent savagery. The writing is as compelling as the events described and kept me eagerly leaping from one page to the next' Wilbur Smith Alex Rutherford's Empire of the Moghul series tells the bloody, brutal and compelling story of the Moghul Emperors of Central Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Now, in the fourth Moghul novel, we begin to see the Empire's self-destruction; a dazzling and compelling story of paternal control, filial betrayl, envy, doubt and conspiracy.