He worked for General Motors for 33 years, retiring some years ago. Navy and attended the University of Missouri. series, which tells the haphazard adventures of hardboiled detective Garrett, and for his Dread Empire series.Glen Cook was born in New York City, lived in southern Indiana as a small child, then grew up in Northern California. That's why service guys like it." Cook is also known for his Garrett P.I. They're not soldiers as imagined by people who've never been in the service. It doesn't glorify war it's just people getting on with the job. When asked about the series' popularity among soldiers, Cook replied: "The characters act like the guys actually behave. It has become something of a cult classic, especially among current and former members of the military. As of 2016, it comprises the novels published in three subseries 1984–85, 1989–90, and 1996–2000, plus recent short fiction. It began a gritty fantasy series of the same name (or Chronicles of the Black Company) following an elite mercenary unit through several decades of its history.
Ĭook wrote The Black Company, a novel published by Tor Fantasy, in May 1984. Cook began to write in earnest while working for General Motors at an auto assembly plant in a job which was "hard to learn, but almost no mental effort", writing as many as three books per year. During his time attached to the Force Recon Unit, Cook participated in what he called "practice combat", and left active duty, "a month before shipped out to Viet Nam".
Cook served in the United States Navy from 1962 to 1972 and specifically was attached, for a time, to a Marine Force Recon unit, the 3rd Marine Battalion. fantasy series.Ĭook was born in New York City. Glen Charles Cook (born July 9, 1944) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction, known for The Black Company and Garrett P.I.
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