Empire Of The Moghul: The Tainted Throne - Plot & Excerpts
Autumn was approaching and chill winds were already beginning to blow off the mountains on the northwestern horizon so that the two of them, sitting in the courtyard of the mud-brick fortress on the banks of the Gandak river where Azam Bahksh had offered sanctuary to Khurram and his family, were shivering a little. ‘You know Mahabat Khan?’ Khurram asked in some surprise. Azam Bahksh was an old man – well over seventy – and as a youth had fought in Akbar’s armies. ‘Only by repute. They say he is a born commander, dashing and ingenious, intelligent as well as ambitious. Such are his qualities that his Rajput horsemen have sworn loyalty to the death to him though he’s not of their race.’ Khurram stared into the heart of the glowing orange coals. The rumours brought by some of Azam Bahksh’s men earlier that day that Mahabat Khan’s advancing army was less than four weeks away had been a shock. He had hoped to be safe here for a while at least. The invitation from the old warrior Khurram remembered only vaguely from his boyhood to take refuge in his ancestral stronghold in the hills north of Patna had been a welcome surprise.
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