She Is the Darkness
Book Two of Glittering Stone
The wind whines and howls with bitter breath. Lightning snarls and
barks. Rage is an animate force upon the plain of glittering stone.
Even shadows are afraid.
At the heart of the plain stands a vast grey stronghold,
unknown, older than any written memory. One ancient tower has collapsed
across the fissure. From the heart of the fastness comes a great deep
slow beat like that of a slumbering world-heart, cracking the olden
silence.
Death is eternity. Eternity is stone. Stone is silence.
Stone cannot speak but stone remembers.
So begins the next movement of Glittering Stone...
The
tale again comes to us from the pen of Murgen, Annalist and Standard
Bearer of the Black Company, whose developing powers of travel through
space and time give him a perspective like no other.
Led by the wily commander, Croaker, and the Lady, the
Company is working for the Taglian government, but neither the Company
nor the Taglians are overflowing with trust for each other. Arrayed
against both is a similarly tenuous alliance of sorcerers, including
the diabolical Soulcatcher, the psychotic Howler, and a four-year-old
child who may be the most powerful of all.
Glen Cook
Glen Cook is the author of dozens of novels of fantasy and science fiction, including The Black Company, The Garret Files, Instrumentalities of the Night, and the Dread Empire series. Cook was born in 1944 in New York City. He attended the Clarion Writers' Workshop in 1970, where he met his wife. He currently makes his home in St. Louis, MO.
The Black Company
The series follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, last of the Free Companies of Khatovar, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred year history. Cook mixes fantasy with military fiction in gritty, down-to-earth portrayals of the Company's chief personalities and its struggles.
The Black Company consists of nine primary books, and includes two additional books that complement the series but are not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
Related series The Black Company (omnibus editions)
