The Black Company

Here is the first installment in Cook's popular Black Company series of fantasy novels.

Some feel that the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel that she is evil itself. The hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. That is, until they hear the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. Could there be a way—somehow, sometime—for the Black Company to find her?

About the Author(s)

Glen Cook

Glen Cook was born in 1944 and began writing SF in 1967. He published his first novel, The Heirs of Babylon, in 1972. His many other books include An Ill Fate Marshalling, Reap the East Wind, The Swordbearer, The Tower of Fear, and the popular Black Company series of novels.

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Excerpt

Chapter One:LEGATE
 
 
There were prodigies and portents enough, One-Eye says. We must blame ourselves for misinterpreting them. One-Eye’s handicap in no way impairs his marvelous hindsight.
Lightning from a clear sky smote the Necropolitan Hill. One bolt struck the bronze plaque sealing the tomb of the forvalaka, obliterating half the spell of confinement. It rained stones.

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