Feet of Clay
Edition: Reissue edition
Series: Discworld (17)
Publisher: HarperTorch
Published: October 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780061057649
Subjects: Fiction - Fantasy; Fiction; Fantasy; Science Fiction; Fantasy - Series; Science Fiction - General; Discworld (Imaginary place); Fantastic fiction; Fiction / Fantasy / General
First sentence: It was a warm spring night when a fist knocked at the door so hard that the hinges bent.
Description: It's murder in Discworld! -- which ordinarily is no big deal. But what bothers Watch Commander Sir Sam Vimes is that the unusual deaths of three elderly Ankh-Morporkians do not bear the clean, efficient marks of the Assassins' Guild. An apparent lack of any motive is also quitetroubling. All Vimes has are some tracks of white clay and more of those bothersome "clue" things that only serve to muck up an investigation. The anger of a fearful populace is already being dangerously channeled toward the city's small community of golems -- the mindless, absurdlyindustrious creatures of baked clay who can occasionally be found toiling in the city's factories. And certain highly placed personages are using the unrest as an excuse to resurrect a monarchy -- which would be bad enough even if the "king" they were grooming wasn't as empty-headed as your typical animated pottery.