Each month, the Tor.com eBook Club gives away a free sci-fi/fantasy ebook to club subscribers. We’re excited to announce that the second pick for August 2018 is THE BLACK COMPANY by Glen Cook, a landmark of grimdark fantasy, kicking off a trend that continues with Game of Thrones today.

Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead.

Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for the Black Company to find her….

So begins one of the greatest fantasy epics of our age—Glen Cook’s Chronicles of the Black Company.