The Black Company - (Chronicles of the Black Company) by Glen Cook (Paperback)

About the Book

"The first novel of the Chronicles of the Black Company."

Book Synopsis

From Glen Cook, the godfather of Grimdark, comes the first book in the Chronicles of The Black Company--an epic fantasy series, with millions of copies in print--following a group of hard-bitten mercenaries waging war on behalf of The Lady, who may very be the manifestation of evil itself.

Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead.

Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more.

There must be a way for the Black Company to find her...

"With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy."--New York Times bestselling author Steven Erikson

Chronicles of The Black Company
The Black Company (The First Chronicle)
Shadows Linger (The Second Chronicle)
The White Rose (The Third Chronicle)
The Silver Spike
Shadow Games (The First Book of the South)
Dreams of Steel (The Second Book of the South)
Bleak Seasons (Book One of Glittering Stone)
She Is the Darkness (Book Two of Glittering Stone)
Water Sleeps (Book Three of Glittering Stone)
Soldiers Live (Book Four of Glittering Stone)
Port of Shadows
Lies Weeping (Book One of A Pitiless Rain)

Omnibus editions:
Chronicles of the Black Company
(comprising The Black Company, Shadows Linger, and The White Rose)
The Books of the South
(comprising Shadow Games, Dreams of Steel, and The Silver Spike)
Return of the Black Company
(comprising Bleak Seasons and She Is the Darkness)
The Many Deaths of the Black Company
(comprising Water Sleeps and Soldiers Live)

Review Quotes

Praise for Glen Cook:

"Over the past 25 years, Cook has carved out a place for himself among the preeminent fantasy writers of his generation . . . His work is unrelentingly real, complex, and honest. The sense of place that permeates his narrative and characters gives his 'fantasies' more gravitas and grit than most fictions set in the here-and-now."--New York Times bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer

"A master realist of the imagination."--Locus

"Glen writes a mean book."--Jim Butcher, author of The Dresden Files

"Cook's talent for combining gritty realism and high fantasy provides a singular edge."--Library Journal, on Water Sleeps

"New and innovative. [Cook] blends the urban, intimate, slightly seedy tradition of sword & sorcery with the pastoral, epic, expansive tradition of heroic fantasy . . . This is the book that injected a shot of realism into the genre, and helped steer it on the course towards modern so-called 'gritty' fantasy."--Strange Horizons, on Chronicles of the Black Company

About the Author

GLEN COOK grew up in northern California, served in the U.S. Navy, attended the University of Missouri, and was one of the earliest graduates of the well-known Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop. Since 1971 he has published a large number of Science Fiction and fantasy novels, including the occult-detective "Garrett" novels, and the very popular "Black Company" sequence that began with the publication of The Black Company in 1984. After working many years for General Motors, Cook now writes full-time. He lives near St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife Carol.