She Is the Darkness

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She Is The Darkness
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Author Glen Cook
Cover artistNicholas Jainschigg
Country United States
Language English
Series The Black Company
Genre Epic fantasy, Dark fantasy
Publisher Tor Fantasy
Publication date
September 1997
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages470
ISBN 0-8125-5533-3
OCLC 39305738
Preceded by Bleak Seasons  
Followed by Water Sleeps  

She Is the Darkness is the seventh 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 called The Black Company through forty years of its approximately four hundred-year history.

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