Books of the Glittering Stone 92-The Many Deaths of the Black Company - books 3-4

In Water Sleeps , the surviving members of the Company regroup in Taglios, determined to free their fellow warriors held in stasis beneath the glittering plain. Journeying there under terrible conditions, they arrive just in time for a magical conflagration in which the bones of the world will be revealed, the history of the Company unveiled, and new worlds gained and lost all at a terrible price. And in Soldiers Live , no Black Company member has died in battle for four years. Croaker figures it cant last. Then a report arrives of an an old enemy newly active again. 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.

"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. . ."

 

The Many Deaths of the Black Company comprises the novels Water Sleeps and Soldiers Live—the final omnibus volume of Glen Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company, one of the greatest fantasy epics of our age.

"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. . ."The Many Deaths of the Black Company comprises the novels Water Sleeps and Soldiers Live--the fourth and final omnibus volume of Glen Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company, one of the greatest fantasy epics of our age The fourth and final omnibus of novels from Cook's Black Company series, this collection includes "Water Sleeps" and "Soldiers Live."