About the Book
The Legacy of Fritz Leiber Lives – Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are Back!
Lankhmar, an ancient and decadent city of magic, where witches and
sorcerers scheme, where gods and ghosts walk the streets and
shadow-haunted alleys, where violence and death dance together like
lovers in the darkness. Lankhmar – a city of plague!
Years ago, two rogues bound together by friendship and a shared destiny
neither understood met in Lankhmar. Living by their swords, their wits
and their daring, they sought adventure and love. Adventure they found,
but love – they lost. In despair, they left the city, vowing never to
return.
Yet vows are made to be broken. Once again, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
are drawn back to Lankhmar and quickly ensnared in its wizard-games as
one jealous mage turns on his rivals and unleashes a black force not
even he can control, a power that threatens the city itself.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, two of the greatest and most beloved
characters in fantasy literature, return in this novel-length adventure
by Nebula Award nominated author Robin Wayne Bailey. SWORDS AGAINST THE
SHADOWLAND, authorized by series creator Fritz Leiber, is a direct
sequel to Leiber’s famous story, “Ill-Met in Lankhmar!”
