Discworld 40
Doubleday
December 2013
On Sale: December 11, 2013
Featuring: Lord Vetinari; Moist von Lipwig; Harry King
375 pages ISBN: 0857522272 EAN: 9780857522276 Kindle: B00FIN0TGY Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man with a flat cap and a sliding rule. He has produced a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elementsβearth, air, fire, and waterβand itβs soon drawing astonished crowds. To the consternation of Ankh-Morporkβs formidable Patrician, Lord Vetinari, no one is in charge of this new invention. This needs to be rectified, and who better than the man he has already appointed master of the Post Office, the Mint, and the Royal Bank: Moist von Lipwig. Moist is not a man who enjoys hard workβunless it is dependent on words, which are not very heavy and donβt always need greasing. He does enjoy being alive, however, which makes a new job offer from Vetinari hard to refuse. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs, and some very angry dwarfs if heβs going to stop it all from going off the rails . . .
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