Book description
Drawing themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, and H. P Lovecraft,
master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy
genre, actually coining the term "Sword and Sorcery" that
describes the sub-genre he helped create. Before THE LORD OF THE RINGS
took the world by storm, Leiber's fantastic but thoroughly flawed
anti-heroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within
the caves of Inner Earth as well, albeit a different one. They wondered
and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon
and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon's
grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiber's fully
realized vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization's corroding
effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their
world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human
complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and
sorcery. SWORDS IN THE MIST, book three in the Lankhmar series, thrusts
our indentured sword-swinging servants into the question of hate, its
power and its purpose. You see, it happens to be lean times in Lankhmar,
illuminating that link between money and love. Luckily, Fafhrd and the
Gray Mouser don't always believe in love. When Lankhmar gets too gritty,
our travelers take to their other, less harsh mistress, the Sea. But the
Sea can play tricks on men, and so can the Sea King. He can break a man
or worse yet, curse him. But when he's away it's all play for the
formidable swordsmen and the Triple Goddess...and two luscious sea
queens. But luck may not always be there as they discover on the way to
Ningauble, their wizard employer. After a long journey in defense of
their control over their own fates, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser find
themselves pawns in a life and death chess game, all of Lankhmar being
the pieces. How many pawns will be left on the board before someone
wins? Fritz Leiber is considered one of science fiction's legends.
Author of a prodigious number of stories and novels, many of which were
made into films, he is best known as creator of the classic Lankhmar
fantasy series. Fritz Leiber has won awards too numerous to count
including the coveted Hugo and Nebula, and was honored as a lifetime
Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. He died in 1992.
