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A Pitiless Rain will be the title of the forthcoming twelfth novel of the Black Company series. No publication date has yet been announced.

Series author Glen Cook has confirmed in two separate interviews that A Pitiless Rain will follow on after Soldiers Live (whereas Port of Shadows turned out to be an interquel set during the time frame of the first trilogy).

Perhaps the only other details disclosed about the novel is that it will involve "the children" and "the god Croaker" (mentioned shortly after the 20:00 minute mark in a 2011 interview, external YouTube link). It is a near-certainty that "children" refers to Baku and Shin, two youthful supernatural entities introduced in 2018's Port of Shadows who repeatedly claimed to be the children of Croaker and Lady. The pair reappeared with the aliases "Lacksluck" and "Luckless" in the 2021 short story "Cranky Bitch", and still referred to Croaker as "Dad".

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