Posted on 10/01/2021 2:03:53 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose
An old book but worth a read.
Croaker rocked!
One of my favorite book series.
Nothing at the link.
I kept getting a blank page with “nothing to see here, move along” in the upper right corner so...
Here’s the Amazon page for the series.
Excellent and fun books.
Not Bad Company, one of the Super Groups of the 70’s.
Croaker is one of my favorite character in that genre.
Paul Rodgers sang like a man.
The Black Company is a great series. You might like “Passage at Arms” for a space-war submarine story, too. That one leads into the Starfishers trilogy.
Glen Cook is one of my favorite sf & fantasy authors. We have all of his books. One of these days I need to reread the Garrett P.I. series.
Black Company series
“With the Black Company series, Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy - something a lot of people didn't notice and maybe still don't. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliche archetypes of princes, kings and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff is like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.”
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I read a few in that series when they first came out. They were OK, but I actually enjoyed his Garrett, P.I. series more.
I’ve read A Passage at Arms and most of his other stuff, though not the Garrett series. I did really like he Dread Empire series.
You’ll probably like Garrett, too. (If you ever read any Nero Wolfe stories, you’ll recognize the Dead Man.)
The thing is that I ran across Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files before I picked up my first Garrett, and I just preferred Dresden. I do have Garrett on my list somewhere, though I have a lot.of catching up to do.
I read the entire Garrett series at least once per year ... what a great series.
Harry Dresden is good, too. I have read the first few, but my wife owns and has read the entire series. One of these days...
Thanks for the series suggestion. I stopped reading most Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels when the authors jumped on the Woke Bandwagon, producing crap where whiny non-heroes go off to other realms to spread their uselessness. Drop Conan into this era and see him overwhelmed by a flitty soyboy book editor with HIV issues.
May be time for a new one. No is defending Americans or their values.
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