About the book: year / Long ago, at the very beginning of the era of the Dominion, centuries before the founding of the Lady's empire, the Sovereign defeated his most dangerous rivals and forced them to serve to yourself. So he had ten villains, soon nicknamed the Ten Taken. White Rose raised the people against the cruel rule of the Lord and the Taken were buried with him in Kurgan. But she could not destroy them... Peaceful centuries passed and human vigilance became dull. It took the resurrectors three hundred and seventy years to open Kurgan. One curious sorcerer tried to get in touch with the Lady. The Lady used it to break free, and the Ten Taken rose from their graves with her, but the Sovereign remained in chains. The ancient Empire will rise again from the ashes after almost four hundred years of oblivion, and the shadow of the Lord will once again hang over the world. Within one generation, they created a new empire of darkness. And this empire has been fought for two generations of rebels, whose countless prophets said that the power of the Lady would fall when a comet was visible in the sky. But their most dangerous prophecies spoke of a child who would become the reincarnation of the White Rose. To this day, the rebels spend a lot of energy searching for this child, who should soon be born again, in another incarnation, and will lead them to final victory. War is a cruel business, and cruel men are involved in it. The gods know that the Black Company are not cherubs. This is a company of spiritual exiles. Everyone has their own past, shrouded in dense fog. But there are limits to everything. They, the soldiers of the Squad, get into a fight without much enthusiasm. No one will sing a song in memory of them. They are the last of the Free Bands of Khatovar. Their traditions and memories live only in the Annals. Only they themselves can grieve for them. On the one hand - the Squad, on the other - the whole world. That's how it was, that's how it will remain. In their war against the rebels, they serve the side that was considered dark. They saw that the followers of the White Rose do much more evil than those who serve the Lady. The obvious villains are at least not hypocritical. They bring darkness with them and it is not their fault. They are the Black Squad. Good and evil are categories that have nothing to do with them. They are just soldiers who sell their sword. Meanwhile, the Lady, the demigoddess of evil, the embodiment of darkness, a living shadow, like a spider, sits in the center of the black web. What could have happened so important that she began to pay attention to the feelings of people like him? And where is their place in this scheme? How can they break out of this pattern? Contents: 1. Glen Cook: Black Squad (Translation: A. Novikov)2. Glen Cook: The shadows are thickening (Translation: I. Vasilyeva)3. Glen Cook: White Rose (Translation: Anonymous, Alexander Vasiliev)4. Glen Cook: Game of Shadows (Translation: Dmitry Starkov)5. Glen Cook: Dreams of Steel 6. Glen Cook: Silver Wedge (Translation: Mikhail Petrunkin)7. Glen Cook: Harsh Times (Translation: Dmitry Starkov)8. Glen Cook: Darkness (Translation: Vitaly Volkovsky)9. Glen Cook: The waters are sleeping (Translation: Bela Zhuzhunava)10. Glen Cook: Soldiers Live