Abandoned to the wilderness after his father's assassination, young Temujin claws his way back from outcast to leader, learning that survival demands both mercy and merciless will, and helping his family to survive betrayal, starvation and captivity. To avenge his family and unite the tribes that left them for dead, he must become something the steppe has never seen-a khan who answers to no one, and a man ready to conquer the world... the man the world will come to call "Genghis."