title: Ill Met In Lankhmar - Tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Volume 1
author:  Fritz Leiber 
description: Born in 1910, the late Fritz Leiber over his lifetime established himself as a legend in the fantasy genre. He has won the <a href="/exec/obidos/subst/lists/awards/hugo.html/${0}">Hugo Award</a> five times, the <a href="/exec/obidos/subst/lists/awards/nebula.html/${0}">Nebula Award</a> three times, and was granted the World Fantasy Award. He is the only writer ever to receive the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America, the Grand Master Award of the Horror Writers or America, and the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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  > ALSO BY CHINA MIÉVILLE
  
  
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  King Rat
  
  
  
  
  
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  Perdido Street Station
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Scar
  
  
  
  
  
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  Iron Council
  
  
  
  
  
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  Looking for Jake: Stories
  
  
  
  
  
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  Un Lun Dun
  
  
  
  
  
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  The City & The City
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter Nine
  
  AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE FLAT, WHERE COLLINGSWOOD HAD fiddled, there were marks.
  Tiny scratches. A little balsa lid, flush with the wood. He flicked it with
  his fingernail.
  
  Billy was hesitant to trust whatever protection it was he’d been afforded. He
  double-locked his door. He stared out through glass at the rooftop where that
  dirty bloody squirrel lay unseen. He wished it drowned in rainwater.
  
  He hunted online but failed to find a single detail of the FSRC. Thousands of
  organisations of those initials, but Baron’s unit was nowhere. On his
  university page Billy read Vardy’s publications list. “Oedipus, Charisma and
  Jim Jones;” “Sayyid Qutb and the Problem of Psychological Organisation;” “The
  Dialectics of Waco.”
  
  Billy drank wine in front of the telev