-As bright and shiny as a newly minted coin; clever, engaging and laugh-out-loud funny- The Times
The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .
Whoever said you can''t fool an honest man wasn''t one.
The Royal Bank is facing a crisis, and it-s time for a change of management.
There are a few problems that may arise with the job . . . The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire - there''s something nameless in the cellar and it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. Meanwhile, people actually want to know where the money-s gone. It''s a job for life.
But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, that life is not necessarily a long one.
He-s about to be exposed as a fraud, but if he-s lucky the Assassins- Guild might get him first. In fact, a