While the most recent novel, the interquel Port of Shadows, does take place chronologically during the Books of the North, it is omitted from that arc both because it was published about 33 years later and because it is a "lost history"-style narrative. The first 10 novels are organized by three story arcs: the 3 Books of the North the 3 Books of the South and the 4 Books of Glittering Stone. The series consists of 11 novels, 5 stand-alone short stories (the On The Long Run story arc), and 4 pre-publication short stories that were later incorporated as chapters in subsequent novels. It chronicles key events of the most recent ~40 years of the long history of a brotherhood of mercenaries called the Black Company, the last of the legendary Free Companies of Khatovar. The Black Company series is a dark fantasy series written by Glen Cook.
Navy, attended the University of Missouri, and was one of the earliest graduates of the well-known Clarion" workshop SF writers.
Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote." -Steven Erikson, author of Gardens of the Moonīorn in 1944, Glen Cook grew up in northern California, served in the U.S. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliché archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. "With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy-something a lot of people didn't notice and maybe still don't.
Then comes the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more… This omnibus edition comprises The Black Company, Shadows Linger, and The White Rose - the first three novels in Glen Cook's bestselling fantasy series. Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must.
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