The Black Company

BOOK SERIES

A Chronicle of the Black Company

Glen Cook

9 main books2 additional works

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.

Books in the series

Books in reading order

The Black Company#1 · 19848.0/1031 ratingsShadows Linger#2 · 19848.6/1019 ratingsThe White Rose#3 · 19858.7/1020 ratingsShadow Games#4 · 19899.1/1010 ratingsDreams of Steel#5 · 19909.2/109 ratingsBleak Seasons#6 · 19968.0/108 ratingsShe Is the Darkness#7 · 19978.6/108 ratingsWater Sleeps#8 · 19999.2/106 ratingsSoldiers Live#9 · 20009.5/106 ratings

Additional works

The Silver Spike1989Port of Shadows2018

Subseries

A Pitiless Rain →The Black Company (omnibus editions) →

SERIES PUBLICATIONS

Publication timeline

Main-series books by publication year. Unconfirmed TBA dates are excluded.

1984–20009 dated main books