The White Rose: A Novel of the Black Company

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Macmillan, Apr 15, 1990 - Fiction - 320 pages
She is the last hope of good in the war against the evil sorceress known as the Lady. From a secret base on the Plains of Fear, where even the Lady hesitates to go, the Black Company, once in service to the Lady, now fights to bring victory to the White Rose. But now an even greater evil threatens the world. All the great battles that have gone before will seem a skirmishes when the Dominator rises from the grave.
 

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THE PLAIN OF FEAR
5
THE PLAIN OF FEAR
8
STORY FROM YESTERYEAR
12
THE NEAR PAST CORBIE
17
THE PLAIN OF FEAR
19
THE PLAIN OF FEAR
22
THE SECOND LETTER
29
THE BARROWLAND
39
NIGHT IN THE BARROWLAND
164
IMPRISONED IN THE BARROWLAND
170
MISSING MAN
177
BOMANZS STORY
183
THE BARROWLAND FROM BAD TO WORSE
190
HARD TIMES
193
THE FOREST AND BEYOND
198
THE FORTRESS AT DEAL
204

THE PLAIN OF FEAR
44
BOMANZS STORY
52
THE BARROWLAND
64
THE PLAIN OF FEAR
68
THE PLAIN OF FEAR
71
THE STORY OF BOMANZ
74
THE BARROWLAND
85
THE PLAIN OF FEAR
87
RUST
92
SIEGE
98
BOMANZS TALE
104
THE BARROWLAND
115
THE PLAIN OF FEAR
121
THE PLAIN OF FEAR
124
THE PLAIN OF FEAR
134
THE WIDE WORLD
141
THE BARROWLAND
146
ON THE ROAD
149
OAR
151
TO THE BARROWLAND
155
THE BARROWLAND BACK WHEN
161
A BARROWLAND NIGHT
162
A GUEST AT CHARM
209
MAKING UP MY MIND
220
A TOWN CALLED HORSE
223
HOMECOMING
231
PICNIC
240
THE QUICKENING
250
BARGAIN STRUCK
254
SON OF THE TREE
257
SHADOWS IN SHADOWLAND
261
FLIGHT WEST
262
THE INVISIBLE MAZE
267
GNOMEN?
271
THE SIGN
273
NO SURPRISE
274
THE RECOVERY
278
AN EVENING AT HOME
286
OPENING ROUNDS
289
TIME FADING
293
THE LAST DAY
297
END OF THE GAME
305
LAST VOTE
309
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Born in 1944, Glen Cook grew up in northern California, served in the U.S. Navy, attended the University of Missouri, and was one of the earliest graduates of the well-known "Clarion" workshop SF writers. Since 1971 he has published a large number of SF and fantasy novels, including the "Dread Empire" series, the occult-detective "Garrett" novels, and the very popular "Black Company" sequence that began with the publication of "The Black Company" in 1984. Among his SF novels is "A Passage at Arms." After working many years for General Motors, Cook now writes full-time. He lives near St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife Carol.

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