Soldiers Live is the ninth novel in Glen Cook

Glen Cook

Glen Cook is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy author, best known for his fantasy series, The Black Company. Cook currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri.-Biography:...

's ongoing series, The Black Company

The Black Company

The Black Company is a series of fantasy novels by author Glen Cook. 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.- The Books of the North:#The...

. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy

Dark fantasy

Dark fantasy is a term used to describe a fantasy story with a pronounced horror element.-Overview:A strict definition for dark fantasy is difficult to pin down. Gertrude Barrows Bennett has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy". Both Charles L...

 as it follows an elite mercenary

Mercenary

A mercenary, is a person who takes part in an armed conflict based on the promise of material compensation rather than having a direct interest in, or a legal obligation to, the conflict itself. A non-conscript professional member of a regular army is not considered to be a mercenary although he...

unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred year history.

Plot summary

In this climactic conclusion to the "Glittering Stone" cycle in the Black Company series, Croaker is former military dictator of all the Taglios, and no Black Company member has died in battle for four years. But with the Company's old adversaries around, who hope to bring about the apocalyptic Year of the Skulls, the Company is brought to the edge of the apocalypse.

Characters in "Soldiers Live"

• Croaker
• Lady
• Sleepy
• Tobo
• Shukrat
• Arkana
• The Daughter of the Night (Booboo)
• Goblin/Possessed Goblin
• Shivetya (the demon)