Cook, Glen

The Black Company

In an era when fantasy was about honorable farm boys with magic swords and a noble destiny, Glen Cook said 'fuck that mess; let's have some amoral pricks doing bad...

Garrett, P.i. Series

Gritty detective fantasy in a warzone - this is The Dresden Files before Dresden. Garrot PI has been vastly overshadowed by Cook’s The Black Company, but these are actually some...

Bitter Gold Hearts

The Stormwarden's children have been kidnapped and Garrett, P.I. is on the case. But caught between the bewitching beauty of a half-elf and the fearsome power of a horde of...

Cold Copper Tears

Garrett, a very human private eye in a fantastical world, puzzles over a mysterious case that involves a coveted copper casket, the disappearance of valuable relics, and death threats against...

Old Tin Sorrows

Someone—or something—is murdering the employees of retired General Stantor. Now, this growing legion of the dead wants to add the general to their ranks. And it’s up to Garrett and...

Dread Brass Shadows

Garrett, a hard-boiled private detective in the city of TunFaire, is visited by his girlfriend Tinnie Tate and she is stabbed in the street. He and his friend Saucerhead Tharpe...

Red Iron Nights

Captain Block of the Watch comes to Garrett for help with a series of brutal murders of women, in which the killer leaves no blood at the scene. With the...

Deadly Quicksilver Lies

When the former mistress of the now-defunct king hires Garrett to find her missing teenaged daughter, the human detective gets more than he bargained for in a world full of...

Petty Pewter Gods

Human P.I. Garrett is hired by two rival groups of gods who are battling over the last remaining space in TunFaire and hope to use Garrett as a spy. In...

Faded Steel Heat

Riots between humans and trolls, elves, and other non-humans have plunged Tunfaire into near chaos. Garrett finds himself pulled into the game when a powerful gang of human rightists tries...

Angry Lead Skies

A series far ahead of its time, now back in print Anyone else would have learned by now: when trouble comes knocking, don't open the door. But there's a reason...

Whispering Nickel Idols

When Garrett, a P.I. in the land of unFaire, is hired to investigate how an underworld boss ended up in a coma, he must go up against the boss's criminally...

The Tyranny Of The Night

Another entry from the always awesome Glen Cook, a new almost mystical figure in the fantasy world with his genre defining work The Black Company which pretty much helped birth...

Lord Of The Silent Kingdom

Following The Tyranny of the Night, the second volume of The Instrumentalities of the Night

Surrender To The Will Of The Night

Piper Hecht's first and greatest secret is that he knows how to kill gods. What's not a secret is that he knows how to win wars. Hecht's secrets make him...

Working God's Mischief

Arnhand, Castauriga, and Navaya lost their kings. The Grail Empire lost its empress. The Church lost its Patriarch, though he lives on as a fugitive. The Night lost Kharoulke the...

Cruel Zinc Melodies

View our feature on Glen Cook's Cruel Zinc Melodies. Garrett uncovers the dark side of the fantasy city TunFaire, where no one is to be trusted especially beautiful women. When...

Black Company

This epic fantasy series is quite a bit different from your standard fantasy fare. If you want an epic military fantasy series where good and bad are not so clearly...

The White Rose

Six years after the events of Shadows Linger, the Black Company, having fled from the service of the Lady, lives in a warren of stinking caves beneath the Plain of...

Shadow Games

SOME GAMES ARE PLAYED FOR LIFE OR DEATH. Javul Charn is the most famous pop star in the galaxy—and the runaway bride of a violent lieutenant in Black Sun, the...

Dreams Of Steel

After the Company's defeat at Dejagore, Lady, one of the few survivors, sets out to avenge herself and the Company against the Shadowmasters, and she joins forces with an ancient...

Bleak Seasons

The Black Company is trapped in the siege of Dejagore, where atrocities are committed by both sides. The Company has split into two camps: Murgen, the standard-bearer and keeper of...

She Is The Darkness

Croaker, Lady, Murgen the annalist, the sorcerer One-Eye, and their fellow mercenary warriors in the hire of the city of Taglia discover their situation is not what it seems.

Water Sleeps

The survivors of the Black Company attempt to rescue some of their cohorts, long imprisoned.

Soldiers Live

The members of the Black Company are faced with a number of old enemies, while an evil spirit, a forvalaka, attacks them at a shadowgate, igniting a chain of repercussions...

A Pitiless Rain

The fourth and final omnibus of novels from Cook's Black Company series, thiscollection includes "Water Sleeps" and "Soldiers Live."

Port Of Shadows

A lot of things happened in back rooms, dark corners and out of the way places before the civil authorities became involved. Even when a young girl walked into the...

Chronicles Of The Black Company

This was one of the first gritty fantasies to hit the shelves. To appreciate this work fully, imagine what it must have been like to encounter the kind of dark...

The Silver Spike

Dark Lords battle for a spike which holds incredible powers. A band of thieves gets there first and unleashes a malign spirit onto the world.

Soldiers Live

The members of the Black Company are faced with a number of old enemies, while an evil spirit, a forvalaka, attacks them at a shadowgate, igniting a chain of repercussions...

Port Of Shadows

The Arctic became part of Canada in 1880 when it was transferred from Britain. How the transfer came about and what Canada did with its new territory is described. The...

The Black Company

A military fantasy where there is no real definition of good and bad. These books center on the exploits and struggles of The Black Company, a famous badass mercenary company...

The Black Company

This is a different breed of fantasy fiction than its pulp fiction brethren. However, there are many elements found in the Black Company that have Sword and Sorcery qualities to...

The White Rose

The Selection meets The Handmaid’s Tale in the epic sequel to the New York Times bestselling author Amy Ewing’s The Jewel. Violet is on the run. She’s escaped the Duchess...

Soldiers Live

Croaker has stepped down as dictator of Taglios and as Captain of the Black Company, and is back in his old job as Annalist. Sleepy is Captain, and no member...

Port Of Shadows

Set between the first two books, Croaker narrates as the Black Company serves the Lady, and its status as her favourites draws the wrong sort of attention. A survivor of...

The White Rose

The Selection meets The Handmaid’s Tale in the epic sequel to the New York Times bestselling author Amy Ewing’s The Jewel. Violet is on the run. She’s escaped the Duchess...

Shadow Games

#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan plunges readers into the darkest recesses of the mind as a man and a woman discover the terrifying power—and the forbidden passion—that...

Bleak Seasons

A fantasy on a band of brothers-in-arms who hire themselves out ot fight evil wizards. Their adventures take the reader on a tour of strange races and cultures.

A Pitiless Rain

The intensity and significance of the Battle of Williamsburg on May 4 and 5, 1862, are often underestimated and misunderstood. Previously understood only as a rear guard action on the...

Port Of Shadows

Gideon Waverley, heir to the Duke of Townsend, had everything a young man could need a promising future, a title, charming good looks, great friends, and a family who adored...

She Is The Darkness

Croaker, now the Captain of the Black Company, leads the surviving members, among them One-Eye, Goblin and Murgen, as it works for the Taglian government against the Shadowmasters.Their enemies include...