![]() ![]() Steven Erikson, author of The Malazan Book of the Fallen Cook provides a rich world of assorted races, cultures, and religions his characters combine the mythic or exotic with the realistic, engaging in absorbing alliances, enmities, and double-crosses. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote. ![]() Glen Cook's newest book, Port of Shadow, is is a master class in unreliable narration. However, Croaker doesn't trust any of the Taken, especially not ones that look so much like The Lady and her sister. Now, he and the company are being asked to seek the aid of their newest member, Mischievous Rain, to break a rebel army. 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. 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 soldiers of the Black Company don't ask questions, they get paid. ![]() Glen Cook, the father of Grimdark, returns to the Chronicles of the Black Company with a military fantasy adventure in Port of Shadows. ![]()
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