The Moon Panther

In the ashes of technological civilization, the horsemen rule.

Across Australia and beyond, the descendants of Mongol conquerors have forged a brutal empire of saddles, steel, and blood. Their supreme warlord, Harujin, the self proclaimed heir of Genghis Khan, has conquered the entire world.

The age of conquest is over.

Now comes the age of intrigue.

From the savage deserts of Western Australia to glittering royal banquets in Auckland and the decadent palaces of the imperial capital, The Moon Panther expands the savage universe introduced in The Hounds of Harujin.

Within these four novellas from Jason Shannon’s Mongolian Book of the Sky, power changes hands in quieter but no less deadly ways:

An assassin walks unarmed into a royal gala beneath the eyes of a hundred guards. 
A calculating concubine manipulates ministers and generals to rule the empire from behind the throne.

In the wastelands, desert bandits carve out their own savage kingdom of drugs, slaves, and blood.

In Harujin’s empire, survival is a game and the winners write the laws.