Glen Cook : Novel : She Is The Darkness

The wind whines and howls with bitter breath. Lightning snarls and barks. Rage is an animate force upon the plain of glittering stone. Even shadows are afraid.

At the heart of the plain stands a vast grey stronghold, unknown, older than any written memory. One ancient tower has collapsed across the fissure in the plain. From the fastness comes a great, deep, slow beat like that of a slumbering world-heart, cracking the olden silence.

Death is eternity.
Eternity is stone.
Stone is silence.
Stone cannot speak but stone remembers.

So begins the next movement of Glittering Stone....

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After five years of silence, Glen Cook returned at last, with Bleak Seasons (1996), to his internationally acclaimed saga of the Black Company. Now, as the epic continues, the Company again faces battle, privation, and betrayal in a war between forces far more powerful.

The tale again comes to us from the pen of Murgen, Annalist and Standard Bearer of the Black Company, whose developing powers of travel through space and time give him a perspective like no other.

Led by the wily commander, Croaker, and the Lady, the Company is working for the Taglian government, but neither the Company nor the Taglians are overflowing with trust for each other. Arrayed against both is a similarly tenuous alliance of sorcerers, including the diabolical Soulcatcher, the psychotic Howler, and a four-year-old child who may be the most powerful of all.

Like its predecessors, She Is The Darkness fuses the magic of Tolkien, Jordan, and Moorcock with the realism of a modern military adventure, to tell an unforgettable tale of sorcery, warfare, and heroism.

The wind whines and howls with bitter breath. Lightning snarls and barks. Rage is an animate force upon the plain of glittering stone. Even shadows are afraid.

At the heart of the plain stands a vast grey stronghold, unknown, older than any written memory. One ancient tower has collapsed across the fissure in the plain. From the fastness comes a great, deep, slow beat like that of a slumbering world-heart, cracking the olden silence.

Death is eternity. Eternity is stone. Stone is silence.

Stone cannot speak but stone remembers.

So begins the next movement of Glittering Stone....

The tale again comes to us from the pen of Murgen, Annalist and Standard Bearer of the Black Company, whose developing powers of travel through space and time give him a perspective like no other.

Led by the wily commander, Croaker, and the Lady, the Company is working for the Taglian government, but neither the Company nor the Taglians are overflowing with trust for each other. Arrayed against both is a similarly tenuous alliance of sorcerers, including the diabolical Soulcatcher, the psychotic Howler, and a four-year-old child who may be the most powerful of all.

To kolejny, osmy juz tom autorstwa Glena Cooka, opowiadajacy o przygodach Czarnej Kompanii. Dla Konowala, Pani, Murgena i reszty braci nie ma wrogow nie do pokonania. Moga pobic wojska ostatniego Wladcy Cienia i ich dowodce - zdrajce Mogabe. Potrafia wedrzec sie na mury Przeoczenia - najwiekszej twierdzy swiata. Umieja przetrwac upiorna zime, gdy po nocach cienie pija ludzka krew. Teraz jednak, kiedy slabnie bariera miedzy swiatami, do gry wchodzi nowy makabryczny przeciwnik. Czy mozna w ogole pokonac boga? Patrzac na Rownine Lsniacego Kamienia, zerowisko smiercionosnych cieni, na horyzoncie dostrzegaja plomyk nadziei. Byc moze dotra wreszcie do celu swej podrozy, miejsca z mrocznej legendy - Khatovaru.