{"product_id":"the-black-company-glittering-stone-2","title":"The Black Company: Glittering Stone 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpecial Omnibus edition containing Water Sleeps and Soldiers Live.  Water Sleeps Regrouping in Taglios  the surviving members of the Black Company are determined to free their fellow warriors held in stasis beneath the glittering plain. Journey there under terrible conditions  they arrive just in time for a magical conflagration in which the bones of the world will be revealed  the history of the Company unveiled  and new world gained and lost...all at a terrible price.  Soldiers Live When sorcerers and demigods go to war  those wars are fought by mercenaries  \"dog soldiers \" grunts in the trenches. And the stories of those soldiers are the stories of Glen Cooks hugely popular \"Black Company\" novels. If the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings  it might read like the Black Company books. There is nothing else in fantasy like them.  Now  at last  Cook brings the \"Glittering Stone\" cycle within the Black Company series to an end . . . but an end with many other tales left to tell. As Soldiers Live opens  Croaker is military dictator of all the Taglias  and no Black Company member has died in battle for four years. Croaker figures it cant last. Hes right.  For  of course  many of the Companys old adversaries are still around. Narayan Singh and his adopted daughter--actually the offspring of Croaker and the Lady--hope to bring about the apocalyptic Year of the Skulls. Other old enemies like Shadowcatcher  Longshadow  and Howler are also ready to do the Company harm. And much of the Company is still recovering from the fifteen years many of them spent in a stasis field.  Then a report arrives of an evil spirit  a forvalaka  that has taken over one of their old enemies. It attacks them at a shadowgate--setting off a chain of events that will bring the Company to the edge of apocalypse and  as usual  several steps beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44962911879221,"sku":"ByrdShop_0739413007","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780739413005.jpg?v=1770400401","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-black-company-glittering-stone-2","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}