Soldiers Live
The Black Company, Book 10
by Glen Cook
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appears in Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, and Fiction.
When sorcerers and demigods go to war, those wars are fought by mercenaries, "dog soldiers, " grunts in the trenches. And the stories of those soldiers are the stories of Glen Cook's hugely popular Black Company novels. If the Joseph Heller of Catch22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books. Ther...
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