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  Thud!

by Terry Pratchett

Book Description:

It's a game of Trolls and Dwarfs where the player must take both sides to 
win ...

It's the noise a troll club makes when crushing in a dwarf skull, or when a 
dwarfish axe cleaves a trollish cranium ...

It's the unsettling sound of history about to repeat itself ... THUD!

It's the most extraordinary, outrageous, provocative, insightful, and 
keenly cutting flight of fancy yet from Discworld's incomparable supreme 
creator ... Terry Pratchett

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch admits he may not be the 
sharpest knife in the cutlery drawer -- he might not even be a spoon. But he's 
dogged and honest and he'll be damned if he lets anyone disturb his city's 
always-tentative peace -- and that includes a rabble-rousing dwarf from the 
sticks (or deep beneath them) who's been stirring up big trouble on the eve of 
the anniversary of one of Discworld's most infamous historical events.

Centuries earlier, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, a horde of 
trolls met a division of dwarfs in bloody combat. Though nobody's quite sure 
why they fought or who actually won, hundreds of years on each species still 
bears the cultural scars, and one views the other with simmering animosity and 
distrust. Lately, an influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting 
unrest among Ankh-Morpork's more diminutive citizens with incendiary speeches. 
And it doesn't help matters when the pint-size provocateur is discovered beaten 
to death ... with a troll club lying conveniently nearby.

Vimes knows the well-being of his smoldering city depends on his ability to 
solve the Hamcrusher homicide without delay. (Vimes's secondmost-pressing 
responsibility, in fact, next to being home every evening at six sharp to read 
Where's My Cow? to Young Sam.) Whatever it takes to unstick this very sticky 
situation, Vimes will do it -- even tolerate having a vampire in the Watch. But 
there's more than one corpse waiting for him in the eerie, summoning darkness 
of the vast, labyrinthine mine network the dwarfs have been excavating in 
secret beneath Ankh-Morpork's streets. A deadly puzzle is pulling Sam Vimes 
deep into the muck and mire of superstition, hatred, and fear -- and perhaps 
all the way to Koom Valley itself.


ISBN: 0060815221; Imprint: HarperCollins; On Sale: 09/13/2005; Format: 
Hardcover; Trimsize: 6 x 9; Pages: 384; $24.95; $0.00(CAN) 

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Hmmm.  Anyone who believes $0.00(CAN) would believe Mr. C.M.O.T. Dibbler...

     Regards,

              Robert.

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