The Blue Wolf by Yasushi Inoue recounts the life of Genghis Khan (1167–1227)—the "Conqueror of the World"—who, according to his chroniclers, forged a vast empire stretching from Beijing to the Volga. Yasushi Inoue tells the epic saga of this son of the "blue wolf and the fawn", the triumphant cavalry charges, the fabulous spoils and the massacres that drove the Mongol hordes into Islamic lands and, beyond the Great Wall, into mythical China. Yet, from battle to battle, it is the discovery of an enigmatic figure that the writer invites us to undertake: drawing from the chronicles of the Secret History of the Mongols, he gradually reconstructs the mystery of the life of he who ceaselessly strove to become the legendary "Blue Wolf".

One of the finest works, alongside Homeric's The Mongol Wolf, on the youth of Temüjin and the conquests of Genghis Khan. Highly recommended to read one or the other.