THIS TIME,
THEY WOULD MAKE A KILLING
Join master thief Nifft the Lean with his companion-at-arms, mighty barbarian Barnar Hammer-Hand, as they trust to their wits and their luck. Once Nifft and Barnar were hired by the ghost of a dead woman to kidnap the man who betrayed her and drag him down to hell to join her. A simple task-or so they thought at first....
Another time, the pair lucked into an even more lucrative proposition, when they were shipwrecked on the way to work in Costard's sap mine-very dangerous and sometimes nauseating work far below ground-and were hired by Bunt to bring back twenty gills of the ichor exuded only by the monstrous insectile queen. It seemed like easy money-they wouldn't have to go to hell! Of course, the best laid plans sometimes do go astray, but this time they were sure they would ... make a killing.
| Publisher's Note: Parts of this work were previously published as Nifft the Lean and The Mines of Behemoth. |
"[Shea combines] the exotic style of lack Vance plus the ingenuity of Fritz Leiber's Gray Mouser stories to produce an extravagant quest novel." —The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
". . . dark, hallucinatory ... impressive work." —The Science Fiction Source Book
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