--- product_id: 1587040 title: "Chronicles of the Black Company" price: "129.25 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1587040-chronicles-of-the-black-company store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Chronicles of the Black Company **Price:** 129.25 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Chronicles of the Black Company - **How much does it cost?** 129.25 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1587040-chronicles-of-the-black-company) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description From Glen Cook, the godfather of Grimdark, comes Chronicles of the Black Company , an omnibus comprising of The Black Company , Shadows Linger , and The White Rose ―the first omnibus volume of the bestselling fantasy series, with millions of copies in print. Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must. They bury their doubts with their dead. Then comes the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more… “With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy.”― New York Times bestselling author Steven Erikson Chronicles of The Black Company The Black Company (The First Chronicle) Shadows Linger (The Second Chronicle) The White Rose (The Third Chronicle) The Silver Spike Shadow Games (The First Book of the South) Dreams of Steel (The Second Book of the South) Bleak Seasons (Book One of Glittering Stone) She Is the Darkness (Book Two of Glittering Stone) Water Sleeps (Book Three of Glittering Stone) Soldiers Live (Book Four of Glittering Stone) Port of Shadows Lies Weeping (Book One of A Pitiless Rain) Omnibus editions: Chronicles of the Black Company (comprising The Black Company , Shadows Linger , and The White Rose ) The Books of the South (comprising Shadow Games , Dreams of Steel , and The Silver Spike ) Return of the Black Company (comprising Bleak Seasons and She Is the Darkness ) The Many Deaths of the Black Company (comprising Water Sleeps and Soldiers Live ) Review: Awesome Epic Mil Fantasy - Now on Kindle (US)! - This is a great epic military fantasy. Characters are great. Story is great. And there is humor also! I love epic fantasies with both military battles and magic battles. The Black Company delivers great epic action as they are recruited into the service of the Lady and the Taken. The Lady and the Taken are resurrected evil from a past empire ruled by the Dominator. There is a rebellion against the Lady which the Black Company must suppress. Many hard military and magical campaigns follow as the Taken battle the rebel wizards, the Black Company rallies the empire's forces and the Dominator plots for his own resurrection. The Black Company is an easy to like outfit filled with hard cases, wise guys and many other enjoyable characters. The Black Company is the best but prefers to win by deception or trickery and only fights when unavoidable - this leads to some interesting scenes. I have been a fan of The Black Company novels for many years. It has been a long painful wait for these novels to arrive as e-book editions in the US but they are finally here. The first novel, The Black Company, remains my favorite but I am a fan of the entire 10 book series. The first three novels (contained in this omnibus edition) and The Silver Spike stand on their own so those who are new to this series need not worry that reading one novel would be a commitment to the entire series - although you may get hooked like I did. However , the last six novels (or the remaining three omnibus editions) have dangling plots individually and would be hard to characterize as standalone. There are 10 Novels of the Black Company in the series. At the time of this review, US e-book editions are available either individually or as four omnibus collections. This is the first omnibus collection. The remaining three omnibus collections are The Books of the South , The Return of the Black Company , and The Many Deaths of the Black Company . This is a must read story for those who are fans of the Epic Military Fantasy stories. Chronicles of the Black Company is 14,526 Kindle locations long. Standard length novels seem to run in the 4,500 to 7,000 plus Kindle location range. Longer novels can range from 15,000 to 20,000 plus Kindle locations. Review: The greatest fantasy series of all time - Do yourself a favor and buy this book. The Chronicles of the Black Company is a compilation of the first three books in the Black Company series, and they are undoubtedly the best fantasy books I've ever read and some of my favorite novels in general. I had never head of Glen Cook or The Black Company before picking this up; it was a completely blind buy as I wanted something to wash the vile taste out of my mouth after finishing one of the worst books I've ever read (Orcs, by Stan Nicholls), and I'll be honest in saying that I was only drawn in by the fantastic cover art on the front of this compilation. I couldn't put it down. I raced through all three novels contained within eager to know what would happen next. The magic of The Black Company series is in the rich, realistic characters that Glen Cook has fleshed out here. There are too many interesting characters to mention, but I will say that Croaker (the narrator) is the best main character I have ever encountered in a written work, and The Lady (the "villain") is one of the most complex and compelling foils I've ever seen committed to the page. The world of these books is alive and rich in complex history and lore and will make you hungry to learn more about it as you read. There's so much to love here and so much to learn, and Cook's writing style makes it all worth reading. The characters take center stage here; you won't be subjected to the awful, mechanical descriptions of combat that pad out most fantasy novels to distract from a lack of any character development or an intricate plot. Let's face it: 99.9% of fantasy novels are absolute trash, and only rarely can one find works where the story and characters escape the rote, cliched premises of this genre. The sign of a truly great fantasy novel is one which can touch upon these staples and yet still make them seem novel. This is dark fantasy, with real characters in a morally ambiguous world where those who are "good" and those who are "evil" never fit comfortably in their designated roles; black and white does not exist here, and gray bleeds into everything. Unlike authors like George R. R. Martin, where the world is bleak and dark only for the sake of shocking readers with random acts of violence and depravity, Cook creates a world that closely mirrors reality. I love these books. If you're tired of seeing the fantasy section at your book store crammed with the latest Dungeons & Dragons schlock that barely passes the quality of fan-fiction and want something intelligent, compelling, and original, try The Black Company. You won't be disappointed. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #23,236 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #118 in Military Fantasy (Books) #218 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #1,153 in Epic Fantasy (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 5,189 Reviews | ## Images ![Chronicles of the Black Company - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71iSvXfuszS.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Awesome Epic Mil Fantasy - Now on Kindle (US)! *by M***E on November 17, 2012* This is a great epic military fantasy. Characters are great. Story is great. And there is humor also! I love epic fantasies with both military battles and magic battles. The Black Company delivers great epic action as they are recruited into the service of the Lady and the Taken. The Lady and the Taken are resurrected evil from a past empire ruled by the Dominator. There is a rebellion against the Lady which the Black Company must suppress. Many hard military and magical campaigns follow as the Taken battle the rebel wizards, the Black Company rallies the empire's forces and the Dominator plots for his own resurrection. The Black Company is an easy to like outfit filled with hard cases, wise guys and many other enjoyable characters. The Black Company is the best but prefers to win by deception or trickery and only fights when unavoidable - this leads to some interesting scenes. I have been a fan of The Black Company novels for many years. It has been a long painful wait for these novels to arrive as e-book editions in the US but they are finally here. The first novel, The Black Company, remains my favorite but I am a fan of the entire 10 book series. The first three novels (contained in this omnibus edition) and The Silver Spike stand on their own so those who are new to this series need not worry that reading one novel would be a commitment to the entire series - although you may get hooked like I did. However , the last six novels (or the remaining three omnibus editions) have dangling plots individually and would be hard to characterize as standalone. There are 10 Novels of the Black Company in the series. At the time of this review, US e-book editions are available either individually or as four omnibus collections. This is the first omnibus collection. The remaining three omnibus collections are The Books of the South , The Return of the Black Company , and The Many Deaths of the Black Company . This is a must read story for those who are fans of the Epic Military Fantasy stories. Chronicles of the Black Company is 14,526 Kindle locations long. Standard length novels seem to run in the 4,500 to 7,000 plus Kindle location range. Longer novels can range from 15,000 to 20,000 plus Kindle locations. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The greatest fantasy series of all time *by N***S on February 19, 2010* Do yourself a favor and buy this book. The Chronicles of the Black Company is a compilation of the first three books in the Black Company series, and they are undoubtedly the best fantasy books I've ever read and some of my favorite novels in general. I had never head of Glen Cook or The Black Company before picking this up; it was a completely blind buy as I wanted something to wash the vile taste out of my mouth after finishing one of the worst books I've ever read (Orcs, by Stan Nicholls), and I'll be honest in saying that I was only drawn in by the fantastic cover art on the front of this compilation. I couldn't put it down. I raced through all three novels contained within eager to know what would happen next. The magic of The Black Company series is in the rich, realistic characters that Glen Cook has fleshed out here. There are too many interesting characters to mention, but I will say that Croaker (the narrator) is the best main character I have ever encountered in a written work, and The Lady (the "villain") is one of the most complex and compelling foils I've ever seen committed to the page. The world of these books is alive and rich in complex history and lore and will make you hungry to learn more about it as you read. There's so much to love here and so much to learn, and Cook's writing style makes it all worth reading. The characters take center stage here; you won't be subjected to the awful, mechanical descriptions of combat that pad out most fantasy novels to distract from a lack of any character development or an intricate plot. Let's face it: 99.9% of fantasy novels are absolute trash, and only rarely can one find works where the story and characters escape the rote, cliched premises of this genre. The sign of a truly great fantasy novel is one which can touch upon these staples and yet still make them seem novel. This is dark fantasy, with real characters in a morally ambiguous world where those who are "good" and those who are "evil" never fit comfortably in their designated roles; black and white does not exist here, and gray bleeds into everything. Unlike authors like George R. R. Martin, where the world is bleak and dark only for the sake of shocking readers with random acts of violence and depravity, Cook creates a world that closely mirrors reality. I love these books. If you're tired of seeing the fantasy section at your book store crammed with the latest Dungeons & Dragons schlock that barely passes the quality of fan-fiction and want something intelligent, compelling, and original, try The Black Company. You won't be disappointed. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Gritty and original *by M***N on February 2, 2012* This collection contains the first three books in the story of the Black Company. They form an easy read, but one that is thankfully well-written and free from too many fantasy cliches. This review is of the Kindle edition, and the first point has to be that there are far too many typographical errors. Every few pages a word has been incorrectly transcribed. "Growl" might appear as "Grow]" for example. It is usually (but not always) easy to work out what a word should be, but it is distracting and inappropriately sloppy on behalf of the publisher. The content itself is excellent and original, but not startlingly so. The three books together tell a grand tale, but one told from a very human perspective. The voices we hear are of soldiers in a mercenary company in the employ of a tyrant. They are the voices of soldiers, and are often hard and disinterested in matters that do not have a direct impact on them or their companions. They are loyal, but only to themselves and to the letter of their contract. Civilians and innocents have no place in their world view, unless they stand in their way or have something that they value. Not all the voices are the same, and the narrator - Croaker - has perhaps more compassion than most. The story Croaker tells races along at a cracking pace, but it takes a while for the reader to put all the pieces of his tale together. Croaker and the Black Company's limited perspective tell one story, but also hide a grander story that only slowly comes to the forefront. These hidden elements of the drama are very effective at creating tension. The motivations of characters outside the Black Company often feel opaque, and only slowly come into focus - leaving the reader anxious to know more. The setting of the Black Company is a fantasy one, but one where magic and monsters are mostly rare. The Black Company has its own sorcerers, and magic becomes increasingly common as the story opens to include the bigger players in the world. Mostly, however, this is a story of slogging through the mud or heat, and of grimy taverns and hand-to-hand combat. Things become a bit more unnatural in the third book, and some of this rang a little too false for me. Flying whales and desert corals all seemed a little distractingly psychedelic. Another slightly off-note are the magic carpets. These do verge of cliche, and when (late in the third book) they are modified with bomb racks, air-to-surface ballista and glass-cabins to allow sub-orbital travel - they start to feel like a bad collage of modern air warfare and fantasy tropes. I don't want these concerns to put you off however, magic carpet travel and the like remains mostly rare - and the focus is mostly on the grim environment and the individuals engaging with Croaker and his companions. The Chronicles of the Black Company is mostly an entertaining read, and one that I thoroughly enjoyed. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone however. The dark elements can be dark, and it may be hard for some to feel much sympathy or affection for the central characters. I might recommend trying the free sample first. If you sense some humanity in Croaker and his companions in that snippet then take the plunge. If you don't, then the 1000+ pages it takes to reach some form of redemption may feel a little too long. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1587040-chronicles-of-the-black-company](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1587040-chronicles-of-the-black-company) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-06-15*