Soldiers Live

Soldiers Live is the ninth novel in Glen Cook's ongoing series, The Black Company. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred year history.

Plot summary

In this climactic conclusion to the "Glittering Stone" cycle in the Black Company series, Croaker is former military dictator of all the Taglios, and no Black Company member has died in battle for four years. But with the Company's old adversaries around, who hope to bring about the apocalyptic Year of the Skulls, the Company is brought to the edge of the apocalypse.

Characters in "Soldiers Live"

• Croaker
• Lady
• Sleepy
• Tobo
• Shukrat
• Arkana
• The Daughter of the Night (Booboo)
• Goblin/Possessed Goblin
• Shivetya (the demon)