Thieves' World: Enemies of Fortune (46 page)

“Editor Abbey … has gotten high-quality contributions from mostly well-known fantasy hands, and she interweaves them so deftly that the book reads like a novel.”

—Booklist

“The recurring characters here work a winning charm.”

—
Kirkus Reviews

“The stories are excellent—Lynn Abbey gathered an excellent group of writers for this second book: Mickey Zucker Reichert, Andrew Offutt, C. J. Cherryh, Steven Brust, Diana Paxson, Dennis L. McKiernan—all authors I really like. And the others are excellent as well: Robin Wayne Bailey, Jane Fancher, Jeff Rosen, Selina Rosen, Jody Lynn Nye, Jeff Grubb.”

—
Random Reading

“Thieves’ World
was a signal event in fantasy history … [a] rich legacy of first-rate story.”

—Raymond E. Feist,
New York Times
bestselling author

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Rifkind’s Challenge

0-765-31346-4

by Lynn Abbey

Available August 2006

From Tom Doherty Associates

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are either products of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously.

THIEVES’ WORLD
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: ENEMIES OF FORTUNE

Copyright © 2004 by Lynn Abbey and Thieves’ World 2000

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.

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eISBN 9781429968003

First eBook Edition : August 2011

EAN 978-0-765-35326-9

First edition: December 2004

First mass market edition: April 2006

Table of Contents

Title Page

Introduction

Widowmaker

Deadly Ritual

Pricks and Afflictions

Consequences

Good Neighbours

Gathering Strength

Dark of the Moon

Protection

Legacies

Malediction

The Ghost in the Phoenix

The Man from Shemhaza

Copyright Acknowledgments

TOR BOOKS BY LYNN ABBEY

Rifkind’s Challenge

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