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Glen Cook

    July 9, 1944

    Glen Cook is best known for his Black Company series, which has been translated into over 20 languages. His work is characterized by a gritty realism and complex characters who often struggle in dark, morally ambiguous worlds. Cook focuses on depicting the horrors of war and survival in unforgiving circumstances. His style is direct and impactful, drawing readers deeply into the atmosphere of his stories.

    Glen Cook
    Lord of the Silent Kingdom
    The Books of the South. Tales of the Black Company
    Garrett Takes the Case: Old Tin Sorrows/Dread Brass Shadows/Red Iron Nights
    MANY DEATHS OF THE BLACK COMPANY
    The Return of the Black Company
    Garrett Investigates
    • 2019

      Glen Cook, the father of Grimdark, returns to the Chronicles of the Black Company with a military fantasy adventure in Port of Shadows. The soldiers of the Black Company don’t ask questions, they get paid. But being “The Lady’s favored” is attracting the wrong kind of attention and has put a target on their backs--and the Company’s historian, Croaker, has the biggest target of all. The one person who was taken into The Lady’s Tower and returned unchanged has earned the special interest of the court of sorcerers known as The Ten Who Were Taken. Now, he and the company are being asked to seek the aid of their newest member, Mischievous Rain, to break a rebel army. However, Croaker doesn’t trust any of the Taken, especially not ones that look so much like The Lady and her sister... The Chronicles of the Black Company #1 The Chronicles of The Black Company #2 The Books of the South #3 The Return of The Black Company #4 The Many Deaths of the Black Company

      Port of Shadows: A Chronicle of the Black Company
    • 2019

      The Heirs of Babylon

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.2(36)Add rating

      "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. Law and order is carried out by the Political Office, black-clad police who rule through fear and violence, commanding the world's survivors how to think, how to act, and when to obey the call to the Gathering: the ritual massing for war against an unknown and unseen Enemy. Now the call has come, and all nations must pay tribute. Kurt Ranke is a young man eking out an existence in the ruins of former Germany with his pregnant wife. But when the Gathering is called, he boards the decrepit destroyer Jäger--a once-mighty warship now more than two centuries old. Antiquated, broken-down, and running on steam, it wallows through uncharted waters carrying Ranke and a reluctant and ragtag group of soldiers en route to the Final Meeting: a battle from which it's rumored none have ever returned . . . " -- Provided by publisher

      The Heirs of Babylon
    • 2018

      Delicious Crochet Shawls

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      The deliciously inspired patterns in this book have been designed to entice the senses whilst crocheting. From a swirling raspberry ripple to a warming gooseberry fool, with a smattering of summer fruit pudding along the way. Not only will fingers delight in creating such sumptuous designs, crocheters will almost be able to smell and taste the delectable treats. The patterns are designed with all skill levels in mind, from beginner to the more adventurous crocheter. The book is an excellent way to enhance skills by creating shawls with different stitches and shapes. Using the most delicious yarns from Cascade, there's something for every season.

      Delicious Crochet Shawls
    • 2018

      Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Balck Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead.

      The Black Company
    • 2017

      The Starfishers Trilogy

      • 584 pages
      • 21 hours of reading

      Set against a backdrop of intergalactic conflict, the story unfolds as a long-standing vendetta ignites between a vengeful Sangaree alien and the Storm family, whose ancestors once liberated human slaves. As the alien's intricate plan for revenge unfolds, it triggers a clash of armies on a mysterious, fiery planet known as the Shadowline, intertwining themes of vengeance, legacy, and the consequences of past actions.

      The Starfishers Trilogy
    • 2014

      In the late nineteenth century it became clear to the British government that health hazards facing those serving in warmer climates, particularly West Africa, were unacceptable. This led to the origin of a new clinical specialty - tropical medicine. This book explores the origins and subsequent decline of tropical medicine.

      The Rise and Fall of a Medical Specialty
    • 2014

      This title features the author's own experiences of National Service as a medical conscript in the Royal Army Medical Corps, between 1960 and 1962, mostly in Lagos, Nigeria, where he was seconded into the Royal Nigerian Army as a junior medical specialist.

      National Service Fifty Years Ago
    • 2013

      Wicked Bronze Ambition

      • 485 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
      4.1(970)Add rating

      Garrett is a human detective in the fantastical city of TunFaire. And now he’s getting tangled up in the worst sort of laws... In-laws. Garrett is set to stow his wandering heart with his fiancée, Strafa Algarda. But for Garrett, even true love comes with its share of headaches—namely, the Algarda family. Strafa’s family needs Garrett’s unique skills in the worst way. Rumors are spreading that someone is organizing a Tournament of Swords—a brutal contest that magically compels the children of sorcerers to battle until only one is left alive. The winner will absorb the power from those he has killed and thus become a demigod. Strafa and her family want to protect her daughter, Kevans, from being forced to take part in the lethal contest...and they’ve asked Garrett to find out who is organizing the tournament and nip it in the bud. The only problem is that finding the culprit is most likely impossible. But the Algardas are used to getting what they want....

      Wicked Bronze Ambition
    • 2012

      At long last, the conclusion to Glen Cook's Dread Empire saga has arrived! King Bragi Ragnarson is a prisoner, shamed, nameless, and held captive by Lord Shih-kaa and the Empress Mist at the heart of the Dread Empire. Far away in Kavelin, Bragia's queen and what remains of his army seek to find and free their king, hampered by the loss or desertion of their best and brightest warriors. Kavelina's spymaster, Michael Trebilcock, is missing in action, as is loyal soldier Aral Dantice.Meanwhile, Dane, Duke of Greyfells, seeks to seize the rule of Kavelin and place the kingdom in his pocket, beginning a new line of succession through Bragia's queen, Dane's cousin Inger. And in the highest peaks of the Dragona's Teeth, in the ancient castle Fangdred, the sorcerer called Varthlokkur uses his arts to spy on the world at large, observing the puppet strings that control kings and empires alike, waiting....For the time of the wrath of kings is almost at hand, and vengeance lies along a path to coldness of heart.

      A Path to Coldness of Heart
    • 2012

      Garrett is a private investigator who always gets his man-or elf, troll, or sorcerer. In the magical city of TunFaire, he's the first name in paranormal detection. Garrett Takes the Case collects three of his adventures in one volume. In Old Tin Sorrows, Garrett is hired to figure out if someone is poisoning a wealthy, retired General, but quickly finds that the man's employees are dying off at a far faster rate; in Dread Brass Shadows, a trio of redheads plunge Garrett straight into the chase for The Book of Shadows, a sorceror's tome holding secrets no mortal was ever meant to master; and in Red Iron Nights, Garrett is hired to track down a serial killer who's preying on the high born young ladies of TunFaire.

      Garrett Takes the Case: Old Tin Sorrows/Dread Brass Shadows/Red Iron Nights