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The Black Company (Books of the North Series #1)

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From Glen Cook, the godfather of Grimdark, comes the first book in the Chronicles of The Black Company—an epic fantasy series, with millions of copies in printfollowing a group of hard-bitten mercenaries waging war on behalf of The Lady, who may very be the manifestation of evil itself.

Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, buryin...

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