27. The Hounds of Harujin (extended novel preview)

Coming2025 – Tiger Blues: a novel 2 transmen try to keep a Buddhist amulet out of Mao’s hands in 1940s Tibet. Those transmen (or genderqueer/nonbinary – not my place to say) are real life badasses Olive Yang (Burmese drug kingpin, 1927-2017) and Kawashima Yoshiko (Japanese war criminal, 1907-1948). Subscribe to my mailing list to stay updated, www.jasonmshannon.com/contact This week I’m bringing you an extended preview of my epic novel, The Hounds of Harujin, consisting of the prologue and first 5 chapters. P. L. Stuart’s Youtube livestream, December 15, 11am - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaFZzMzay7s Jason Shannon is an indie Canadian author of science fiction and more. Hehas published 6 novels - The Zimmer Insurgency, The Hounds ofHarujin, The Moon Panther, Rain's Agenda, The Rise and Fall of ChazOregano, and Attila the Valley Girl - as well as several shortstories. Visit www.jasonmshannon.com to read the short stories,as well as novel excerpts, or for links to download/buy. Allnovels are available in print and ebook. Chaz, Zimmer, Attila, andOne Night in Ikh Khulan are available in audiobook. Buy my ebooks/audiobooks https://www.jasonmshannon.com/store Use code VIOLA at checkout to pick up One Night in Ikh Khulan for only $2. Limited time offer. Follow my social media @harujinshounds The Hounds of Harujin synopsis: First, there was Attila, who savaged Rome and committed genocide from Asia Minor to Gaul. He was a Mongol, who wandered in from the east, and took up the sword for gold, girls and glory. Then came Genghis, the founder of the nation, who surged outwards from the steppe and wreaked annihilation across two continents. He was a Mongol, who made graveyards of China and the Middle East and left his seed in half the women of Eurasia. Then came Tamerlane, who swirled out of Samarkand like a whirlwind, leaving towers of human skulls and a tidal wave of blood enough to drown an army – and their horses. He was a Mongol, that butchered from India to the shores of Europe, and terrified the Middle East for a half millennium with his curse....   Then came Harujin, who, on the crest of an energy crisis and economic collapse, raised his scimitar like a standard, and charged his horses outwards from Mongolia to usher in the new world epoch....   In Australia, the khan’s nephew is assassinated by roadside phantoms. But the khan is more concerned with the chests of his concubines than with Australian dissidence or family outrage. The Mad Queen of Queensland is livid at the death of her son, tensions are mounting between the metropolitan heir apparent and the older, war hardened brother. In the desert, the khan’s reclusive daughter cultivates a reputation for murdering her husbands. A young woman is offered for the khan’s growing harem, but finds herself the tool of something much bigger. And as the feuding family tensions come to a head, the khan is forced to reach out to his estranged son, and bring him back from a Buddhist monastery to solve a murder....