Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)
Oct 2011 · Random House
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'THE JURISDICTION OF A GOOD MAN EXTENDS TO THE END OF THE WORLD.'
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is having some time off. Apparently.
But crime doesn't take a break - it's a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman on holiday would barely have time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.
In the seemingly peaceful countryside, Vimes discovers much more than a body in the wardrobe. For the local nobles are hiding a deep, dark secret. There are many, many bodies - and an ancient atrocity more terrible than murder.
Vimes is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth and out of his mind. But never out of ideas. Where there is a crime there must be a punishment.
They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. This might be the exception ...
'As effortlessly, generously funny as only Pratchett can be, Snuff doesn't stint on laying bare the darker side of life either' Sunday Times
Snuff is the eighth book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is having some time off. Apparently.
But crime doesn't take a break - it's a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman on holiday would barely have time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.
In the seemingly peaceful countryside, Vimes discovers much more than a body in the wardrobe. For the local nobles are hiding a deep, dark secret. There are many, many bodies - and an ancient atrocity more terrible than murder.
Vimes is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth and out of his mind. But never out of ideas. Where there is a crime there must be a punishment.
They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. This might be the exception ...
'As effortlessly, generously funny as only Pratchett can be, Snuff doesn't stint on laying bare the darker side of life either' Sunday Times
Snuff is the eighth book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
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April 19, 2012
Another novel by sir Pratchett that brings Sam vimes to realise that age is catching him fast as out of his depth in the country strives to find out what happened to the gobbling where a blacksmith has disappeared to and see if the world can be brought together by song from a creature they once called a beast. Any prachett fan must read this novel
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January 7, 2012
I always enjoy Sir Terry Prattchets creations, none more than the ones centered around Sam Vimes. Snuff is a fairytale about goblins with under tones of race, slavery and class devisions. One of the best Discworld novels yet.
Melinda Bolton
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May 16, 2024
A somewhat complex and endearing introspective into Samuel Vimes, interspersed with harrowing adventures and carefully worded manipulation of all other incidental characters.
About the author
Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.
www.terrypratchettbooks.com
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