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.

Soldiers Live
AuthorGlen Cook
Cover artistNicholas Jainschigg
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Black Company
GenreEpic fantasy, dark fantasy
PublisherTor Fantasy
Publication date
July 2000
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages566
ISBN0-8125-6655-6
OCLC46654352
Preceded byWater Sleeps 

Plot summary edit

Croaker, no longer dictator of Taglios or Captain of the Company, resumes his old role as Annalist. Sleepy is now Captain, and no Black Company member has died in battle for four years. But when the Company's old adversaries try to bring about the apocalyptic Year of the Skulls, the Company is brought to the edge of destruction.

Characters in "Soldiers Live" edit

  • Croaker
  • Lady
  • Sleepy
  • Tobo
  • Shukrat
  • Arkana
  • The Daughter of the Night (Booboo)
  • Goblin
  • Shivetya (the demon)
  • One-Eye
  • Murgen

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