Glen Cook

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 is fantasy for all fans of Steven Erikson, Joe Abercrombie, and David Gemmell. Contains the first...

The dystopian politics of 1984 meet the naval warship backdrop of The Last Ship in fantasy master Glen Cook's reissued first novel, available for the first time in decades. It is 2193, and still the war continues. Two hundred years after nuclear and chemical weapons have nearly annihilated the global population, the last of mankind struggles on in isolated communities....

From Glen Cook, the godfather of Grimdark, comes the first book in the Chronicles of the Black Company—an epic fantasy series, with millions of copies in print—following a group of hard-bitten mercenaries waging war on behalf of The Lady, who may very well be the manifestation of evil itself. Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands...