1. The Black Company

✍ Scribed by Cook, Glen

• Book ID: 107072025
• Publisher: Tor Fantasy
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: UND
• Weight: 164 KB
• Series: Chronicles of the Black Company 1.1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The series follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, last of the Free Companies of Khatovar, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred year history. In the series, Cook mixes fantasy with military fiction in gritty, down-to-earth portrayals of the Company‘s chief personalities and its struggles. The series can be subdivided into three sections plus a spin-off novel, The Silver Spike, that follows events concerning former members of the Company and one of its adversaries. The three sections are the Books of the North, the Books of the South, and Glittering Stone. The first three books, the ''Books of the North,'' recount the Company’s dealings with the Empire of Lady. The Books of the South follows the Company’s journey south on its journey back to its beginnings in Khatovar. Glittering Stone sees the Company achieve victory over its employer's enemies, and move on to its destiny. The ''Books of the North'' include: The Black Company, Shadows Linger, and The White Rose. The ''Books of the South'' include: Shadow Games and Dreams of Steel. ''Glittering Stone'' includes: Bleak Seasons, She Is The Darkness, Water Sleeps, and Soldiers Live. The stand alone novel The Silver Spike takes place roughly at the same time as the first Book of the South.