Glen Cook
Glen Charles Cook (born July 9, 1944) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction, known for ''The Black Company'' and ''Garrett P.I.'' fantasy series.
Biography
Cook was born in New York City.The Black Company. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and
dark fantasy
Dark fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy literary, artistic, and cinematic works that incorporate disturbing and frightening themes of fantasy. It often combines fantasy with elements of horror or has a gloomy dark tone or a sense of horror and dr ...
as it follows an elite
mercenary
A mercenary, sometimes also known as a soldier of fortune or hired gun, is a private individual, particularly a soldier, that joins a military conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any o ...
unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred year history.
Plot summary
Croaker, no longer dictator of Taglios or Captain of the Company, resumes his old role as Annalist. Sleepy is now Captain, and no Black Company member has died in battle for four years. But when the Company's old adversaries try to bring about the apocalyptic Year of the Skulls, the Company is brought to the edge of destruction.
Characters in "Soldiers Live"
* Croaker
* Lady
* Sleepy
* Tobo
* Shukrat
* Arkana
* The Daughter of the Night (Booboo)
* Goblin
* Shivetya (the demon)
* One-Eye
* Murgen