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The Black Company

by Glen Cook

Mercenaries caught between rival visions of good and evil

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Mercenaries caught between rival visions of good and evil

The Black Company opens Glen Cook’s Chronicles of The Black Company with a mercenary band taking employment under the Lady, a figure whose return divides opinion: some see her as a shield against evil, others as evil itself. The Company’s members carry out their work while setting aside their doubts, until a prophecy of the reborn White Rose offers a possible counterforce. That conflict places the soldiers’ paid obligations alongside questions of allegiance and moral judgment. As the first book in a larger fantasy series, it introduces the Company through a struggle in which the identity of the greater threat remains contested.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in epic fantasy centered on mercenaries and military service.
  • Readers who enjoy stories built around uncertain allegiances and competing ideas of good and evil.
  • Readers seeking the opening installment of a longer fantasy series.

Themes

Mercenary lifeMoral ambiguityAllegianceGood and evilProphecy

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Book overview

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)

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