Traitors In The Shadows

A new emperor Aurangzeb sits on India s glittering Peacock Throne - the throne he seized from his father while the old emperor still lived. Hehas paid for it with blood during the brutal civil war he hunted down and killed his brothers. Now he must return the Moghul Empire to the truepath and achieve new glory. But the exercise of great power is isolating. With enemies everywhere who should he trust? Certainly not his sons.He must rely on himself and the knowledge that there are more ways to subdue a man than on the battlefield.But as the years pass memorieshaunt him - memories of a father who never loved him and a mother who lies in the Taj Mahal of murdered brothers and of sons and daughterslocked in sunless prisons. He tells himself that everything he has done has been necessary - moral even. But how will his God judge him? About the AuthorAlex Rutherford is Diana Preston and her husband Michael.