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The Silver Spike

Chronicles of the Black Company

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The Silver Spike

By: Glen Cook
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
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....embedded in the trunk of the scion of the godtree, it contains the essence of the maddest of the Ten Who Were Taken...The Dominator.

Defeated by the Lady and cast from this world, all that was left of him was a foul trace of lingering evil. But the graveyard that was once the Barrowland contains more secrets than dead. All who would possess the power of the Dominator are drawn to the spike. A foolhardy band of thieves is the first to reach it, and a rapacious and malign spirit is unleashed on an unwary world. The forces gather, sides are drawn, and mortal men can only die as the Dark Lords battle for domination.

Listen to more in the Black Company series.©1989 Glen Cook (P)2010 Audible, Inc. Fantasy Epic Epic Fantasy Sword & Sorcery Fiction
Satisfying Conclusion • Interesting Characters • Worthwhile Departure • Concise Plot • Emotional Epilogue • Dream Voice

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The story picks up immediately after the events of the previous book. This is one that you shouldn’t skip over because it doesn’t advance the main plot. It has some really sad endings, but what else can you expect from the black company with one single spark of Hope at the very end

I think it is the best so far

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I’d forgotten how painful this book was when I first read it thirty years ago. It says it’s a standalone, but I don’t see how you really understand what the Black Company has been through without it. Plus, Toadkiller Dog is a great character.

The narrator’s voice is a dream and his voice-acting skills are among the best I’ve heard. Since he’s not speaking from Croaker’s pov, it blends beautifully with the first books.

What follows in the next paragraph is kind of a spoiler. I won’t give it away completely, but stop here if you don’t want to know anything at all before you read this one.

This book broke my heart with so much character loneliness and death, including that of a man whose whole life had been loneliness and death. If you know the Black Company, you know who it is. Damn you, Glen Cook, for making me feel that one so much, I cried into my pillow.

Angst and glory

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Great series . Glen Cook writes fantasy with realism. Audible has had two great speakers perform this series with extreme talent

Good book

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I loved the performance of this great book!
The story is really well written, especially if The Black Company has already been read.

Great book!

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Spectacular finale for the first three books, ties up many lose ends and ends the story of many characters.

The fourth book of the Black Company trilogy.

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