The Imperator Wars Series by James Axler

In the Outlands, the struggle for control of the baronies continues. Kane, Grant and Brigid seek allies in the Western Island empire of New Edo where they try to enlist the aid of the Tigers of Heaven, a group of samurai warriors.Book #2 of The Imperator Wars saga, a trilogy chronicling the introduction of a new child imperator -- launching the baronies into war

GRIM FORBEARANCE The fate of humanity remains ever uncertain, dictated by the obscure forces that have commandeered mankind's destiny for thousands of years. The plenipotentiaries of these ancient oppressors -- the nine barons who have controlled America in the two hundred years since the nukecaust -- are now falling prey to their own rabid desire for power... moreGRIM FORBEARANCE The fate of humanity remains ever uncertain, dictated by the obscure forces that have commandeered mankind's destiny for thousands of years. The plenipotentiaries of these ancient oppressors -- the nine barons who have controlled America in the two hundred years since the nukecaust -- are now falling prey to their own rabid desire for power. Their imposed doom is aided by a handful of intrepid men and women in a bitter fight to destroy the self-proclaimed new humans and deliver humanity from the yoke of interminable slavery . . . FORBIDDING FORTUNE In what once was the Pacific, the internecine baronial war rages on. Kane, Grant and Brigid wreak their own brand of destruction, inadverntly leading invading forces to the island of New Edo, a lost world that echoes the violent, honor-ruled ways of feudal Japan. Amidst this war within a war, a shocking new twist emerges in the blueprint to control the future. kane and his companions will become victims of a mysterious power play by alien dictators unleashing their abominable plan to claim Earth. less