Company

Things don't go as planned for a colony of war veterans on abandoned island in this fantasy novel by a World Fantasy Award–winning author.

"Imagine Lost meets The Italian Job . . . a masterfully planned and executed book." —SFF World

Hoping for a better life, five war veterans colonize an abandoned island. They take with them everything they could possibly need—food, clothes, tools, weapons, even wives.

But an unanticipated discovery shatters their dream and replaces it with a very different one.

The colonists feel sure that their friendship will keep them together. Only then do they begin to realize that they've brought with them rather more than they bargained for.

For one of them, it seems, has been hiding a terrible secret from the rest of the company. And when the truth begins to emerge, it soon becomes clear that the war is far from over . . .

With masterful storytelling and an irresistible wit, K.J. Parker is widely acknowledged as one of the most original and exciting fantasy writers of modern times. The Company, K.J. Parker's first stand-alone novel, is a tour de force from an author who is changing the face of the fantasy genre.

"Blends gritty military fantasy with eighteenth-century 'island story' tradition. . . . Parker carries the reader on a headlong gallop to the powerful conclusion." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"It's a dark, bleak and fiercely intelligent portrait of the human condition." —SFX