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Swords Against Death

The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

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Swords Against Death

By: Fritz Leiber
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Neil Gaiman (introduction)
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Summary
 Neil Gaiman Presents: the second book in Fritz Leiber's classic sword-and-sorcery series.

In Swords Against Death, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser journey from the ancient city of Lankhmar, searching for a little adventure and debauchery to ease their broken hearts. When a stranger challenges them to find and fight Death on the Bleak Shore, they battle demonic birds, living mountains, and evil monks on the way to their heroic fate.

The late Fritz Leiber's tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser launched the sword-and-sorcery genre, and were the inspiration for the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons.

BONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction by Neil Gaiman.

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"The two of them are the finest and most wonderful team in the history of sword and sorcery." (Neil Gaiman)
"Fritz Leiber's tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are virtually a genre unto themselves. Urbane, idiosyncratic, comic, erotic and human, spiked with believable action and the eerie creations of a master fantasist!" (William Gibson)
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Fritz Leiber is one of the giants of the sword and sorcery genre. Unfortunately this particular edition is let down by the reader. I would have much preferred the same narrator who did The Name of the Wind. Fafhrd would have been much better with a Scottish or Norse accent and the Mouser maybe with a Middle Eastern accent, certainly not an Australian accent

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