Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must. They bury their doubts with their dead.
Then comes the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more&
This omnibus edition comprisesThe Black Company,Shadows Linger, andThe White Rosethe first three novels in Glen Cook's bestselling fantasy series.
One of the great fantasy epics of our age returns to print in an omnibus edition
Glen Cooklives in St. Louis, Missouri.
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. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the clich? archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.
Steven Erikson, author of Gardens of the Moon