Port of Shadows: A Chronicle of the Black Company

by Glen Cook Narrated by Brian Troxell

Overview

Port of Shadows is the newest dark fantasy audiobook in Glen Cook's esteemed Chronicles of the Black Company series.

The father of Grimdark returns...

The soldiers of the Black Company don't ask questions, they get paid. But being “The Lady's favored” is attracting the wrong kind of attention and has put a target on their backs, and the Company's historian, Croaker, has the biggest target of all.

The one person who was taken into The Lady's Tower and returned unchanged has earned the special interest of the court of sorcerers known as The Ten Who Were Taken. Now, he and the company are being asked to seek the aid of their newest member, Mischievous Rain, to break a rebel army. However, Croaker doesn't trust any of the Taken, especially not ones that look so much like The Lady and her sister...

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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

08/06/2018
After more than 17 years, Cook returns with a murky and ephemeral addition to his Chronicles of the Black Company grimdark fantasy series. Chronicler Croaker and the rest of the mercenary band are in service to a mysterious and powerful sorceress known as the Lady, but as they get comfortably dug in at their new posting, begin to realize that things are a little too quiet. They’re sent to capture a supposed rebel leader who turns out to be an innocent-seeming young woman, and things begin to get strange. Small acts of sabotage crop up in the camp, doubles of the young woman begin to appear, and someone or something is affecting the memories of the Company. Cook’s convoluted style is in full flower, and between the forgetting and the fact that Croaker is often kept in the dark, the plot can be somewhat hard to follow. With no lasting impact on the Company or their over-arching story, this makes for a pleasant diversion for fans of the series. Agent: Russell Galen, Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary. (Sept.)

From the Publisher

"Glen Cook's newest book, Port of Shadow, is is a master class in unreliable narration. " —Jenn Lyons, author of Ruin of Kings

"Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote." —Steven Erikson, author of The Malazan Book of the Fallen

"Cook provides a rich world of assorted races, cultures, and religions; his characters combine the mythic or exotic with the realistic, engaging in absorbing alliances, enmities, and double-crosses." —Publishers Weekly on Bleak Seasons

"Sheer page-turning fun!" —Robin McKinley on Bleak Seasons

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172011849
Publisher:	Macmillan Audio
Publication date:	09/11/2018
Series:	Black Company Series , #3
Edition description:	Unabridged

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