![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Glen Cook is said to have served in the Vietnam War, and you’d really get that feeling from reading his work. That’s one of the things that I love about Glen Cook’s work, and makes my own writing feel somewhat inadequate it’s realism. The (theoretically) fourth book of the Black Company series picks up as Croaker leads the very last few surviving members of the Black Company south, in their hopes to reach Khatovar and return the Annals of the Black Company, fulfilling an oath made by the very first annalist of the Company.Īnd finally they reach somewhere which ends up requiring them to stay in one spot for an extended period of time, train up a pacifist nation to fight off some mildly familiar villains and suffer Glen Cook’s penchant for realistic battle and death. His writing is blunt, efficient, and above all, it is gritty. Glen Cook writes novels which don’t focus on the leaders and warlords, but on the ground-level men and women fighting the war. I was asked recently to explain just what that means, and here’s what I came up with: That’s how Glen Cook’s Black Company novels are so often described as, thanks to a quote made by Steven Erikson of Cook’s writing. Did you know, not everyone understands intrinsically what ‘Vietnam war fiction on peyote’ describes. ![]()
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