Soldiers Live
Apr 2007 · Chronicles of The Black Company Book 11 · Tor Books
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Glen Cook's epic fantasy noir Chronicles of the Black Company continues with Soldiers Live.
When sorcerers and demigods go to war, those wars are fought by mercenaries, "dog soldiers," grunts in the trenches. And the stories of those soldiers are the stories of Glen Cook's hugely popular "Black Company" novels. If the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books. There is nothing else in fantasy like them.
Now, at last, Cook brings the "Glittering Stone" cycle within the Black Company series to an end . . . but an end with many other tales left to tell. As Soldiers Live opens, Croaker is military dictator of all the Taglias, and no Black Company member has died in battle for four years. Croaker figures it can't last. He's right.
For, of course, many of the Company's old adversaries are still around. Narayan Singh and his adopted daughter--actually the offspring of Croaker and the Lady--hope to bring about the apocalyptic Year of the Skulls. Other old enemies like Shadowcatcher, Longshadow, and Howler are also ready to do the Company harm. And much of the Company is still recovering from the fifteen years many of them spent in a stasis field.
Then a report arrives of an evil spirit, a forvalaka, that has taken over one of their old enemies. It attacks them at a shadowgate--setting off a chain of events that will bring the Company to the edge of apocalypse and, as usual, several steps beyond.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
When sorcerers and demigods go to war, those wars are fought by mercenaries, "dog soldiers," grunts in the trenches. And the stories of those soldiers are the stories of Glen Cook's hugely popular "Black Company" novels. If the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books. There is nothing else in fantasy like them.
Now, at last, Cook brings the "Glittering Stone" cycle within the Black Company series to an end . . . but an end with many other tales left to tell. As Soldiers Live opens, Croaker is military dictator of all the Taglias, and no Black Company member has died in battle for four years. Croaker figures it can't last. He's right.
For, of course, many of the Company's old adversaries are still around. Narayan Singh and his adopted daughter--actually the offspring of Croaker and the Lady--hope to bring about the apocalyptic Year of the Skulls. Other old enemies like Shadowcatcher, Longshadow, and Howler are also ready to do the Company harm. And much of the Company is still recovering from the fifteen years many of them spent in a stasis field.
Then a report arrives of an evil spirit, a forvalaka, that has taken over one of their old enemies. It attacks them at a shadowgate--setting off a chain of events that will bring the Company to the edge of apocalypse and, as usual, several steps beyond.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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4.7
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23 May 2012
I guess if you're going to end an epic fantasy series without destroying the overall theme, this is the way to do it. I have read the series many times since 1991, without ever getting past the sixth book because I never wanted to finish it. I am now glad I did and was able to see what Cook had laid out for us, the readers! Thank you glenn cook!
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14 September 2009
Glen Cook gets a bit cosmographical in this installment of the Black Company series, but keeps the action compelling and the characters entertainingly vulgar.
Joseph Lewis
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11 July 2015
The book wandered around and was somewhat tedious in details. But I was started with Croaker, Catcher and the Lady. And I finished with them in a very satisfactory way. Some fill-in prequels on the way?
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Glen Cook lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
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