Bleak Seasons

From Glen Cook, the godfather of Grimdark, comes the first book in the Glittering Stone arc of the Chronicles of The Black Company—an epic military fantasy series, with millions of copies in print. "Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive....I am Murgen, Standard bearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead. One-Eye won't, and hardly anyone else can read or write. I