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Making Money

ISBN: 9780061161650

Title: Making Money

Author: Terry Pratchett

KDL Description:

Moist Von Lipwig, the savior of the Ankh-Morpork post office, has gotten settled into a routine. But with routine comes boredom. He’s so bored, in fact, that he’s taken to climbing the walls of the post office and breaking into his own office. When he is offered the job of running the royal mint he tries to refuse, pretending that he’s satisfied with the stable life, but he can’t deny the urge for adventure and intrigue for long.

Amazon Description:

Amazingly, former arch-swindler-turned-Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig has somehow managed to get the woefully inefficient Ankh-Morpork Post Office running like… well, not like a government office at all. Now the supreme despot Lord Vetinari is asking Moist if he’d like to make some real money. Vetinari wants Moist to resuscitate the venerable Royal Mint—so that perhaps it will no longer cost considerably more than a penny to make a penny. Moist doesn’t want the job. However, a request from Ankh-Morpork’s current ruling tyrant isn’t a “request” per se, more like a “once-in-a-lifetime-offer-you-can-certainly-refuse-if-you-feel-you’ve-lived-quite-long-enough.” So Moist will just have to learn to deal with elderly Royal Bank chairman Topsy (née Turvy) Lavish and her two loaded crossbows, a face-lapping Mint manager, and a chief clerk who’s probably a vampire. But he’ll soon be making lethal enemies as well as money, especially if he can’t figure out where all the gold has gone.