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Shadow Games

Shadow Games

Shadow Games is the fourth novel in Glen Cook's ongoing series, The Black Company. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred-year history.


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““Truth is a deadly weapon,” Lady said.
“Which is why priests and princes dread it,” I said.”

Source: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 25, “Taglios: Scouting Southward” (p. 127)

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“Are lovers ever honest?”

Source: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 5, “Chains of Empire” (p. 31)

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“Never underestimate the power of human ingratitude.”

Source: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 30, “Taglios Aroused” (p. 156)

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“Willow, if the gods thought half as much of you as you think of yourself, you’d be king of the world.”

Source: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 7, “Smoke and the Woman” (p. 39)

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“I began to back away.
This is how I handle my women. Duck for cover when they get distressed.”

Source: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 5, “Chains of Empire” (p. 31)

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“Trouble came only where I expected it, from One-Eye, whose motto is that anything not nailed down is his and anything he can pry loose isn’t nailed down.”

Source: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 38, “Invaders of the Shadowlands” (p. 194)

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“I was learning that part of a captain’s job is to delegate. Maybe genius lies in choosing the right person for the right task.”

Source: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 31, “Taglios: a Boot-Camp City” (p. 165)

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