From international bestseller Glen Cook comes the eleventh book in the chronicles of the Black Company — the series that forever changed the face of fantasy. The Black Company has been paid to keep the peace in the backwater city of Aloe — but peace has never been good for business. Ordered to crush a rising rebellion, the Company must rely on their newest ally: the enigmatic Mischievous Rain, the newest member of the Taken that looks eerily like the Lady, and who Croaker knows better than to trust. With a target on his back and strange happenings plaguing the city, Croaker begins to suspect that something might be tampering with their minds and maybe even history itself...
From international bestseller Glen Cook comes the eleventh book in the chronicles of the Black Company — the series that forever changed the face of fantasy. The Black Company has been paid to keep the peace in the backwater city of Aloe — but peace has never been good for business. Ordered to crush a rising rebellion, the Company must rely on their newest ally: the enigmatic Mischievous Rain, the newest member of the Taken that looks eerily like the Lady, and who Croaker knows better than to trust. With a target on his back and strange happenings plaguing the city, Croaker begins to suspect that something might be tampering with their minds and maybe even history itself...