The Return of the Black Company

Glen Cook

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“Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive. . . .

“I am Murgen, Standardbearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead, One–Eye won’t, and hardly anyone else can read or write. I will be your guide for however long it takes the Shadowlanders to force our present predicament to its inevitable end....”

This omnibus volume comprises the novels Bleak Seasons and She is the Darkness.

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Incessant wind sweeps the plain. It mutters across grey pavements that sweepfrom horizon to horizon. It sings around scattered black pillars, a chorus ofghosts. It tumbles leaves and scatters dust come from afar. It teases the hair of acorpse that has lain undisturbed for a generation, mummifying. Impishly, thegale tosses a leaf into the cadaver’s silently screaming mouth, tugs it away again. The wind carries the breath of winter.

Lightning leaps from pillar to ebon pillar like a child skittering from base tobase in a game of tag.

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Sebastian  rated it  
Jan 9, 2012
I love the series. POV changes, but that did not trouble me, I actually recognise that potential all along. Chronicles, right?
Well, what I like about the Black Company is that it illustrates more or less everyday guys in war in a truthful way. The protagonist are neither heroes nor saints, thei ...more
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Jason  rated it  
Dec 8, 2011
Soulcatcher should definitely be in the category of Most Notable Villainesses. The Black Company books get better and better. ...more
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Joshua  rated it  
May 26, 2011
This book covers the first half of the Glittering Stone saga. Murgen takes a stab at being Annalist and does a great job at it. The stakes have risen and the Black Company finds themselves in a perilous position by the end, setting up a million questions in the mind of the reader.

The ...more
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GLEN COOK lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

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The Return of the Black Company
Glen Cook

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Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
September 2009
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ISBN: 9780765324009
ISBN10: 0765324008
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 672 pages
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