Reaper ManAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Tuesday 30 July 2013
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"Engaging, surreal satire. . . nothing short of magical." Chicago Tribune
The eleventh installment in the Discworld fantasy series fromNew York Timesbestselling author Terry Pratchett in which Death has been fired by the Auditors of Reality, andAnkh-Morpork's undead and underemployed set off to find him.
They say there are only two things you can count on. But that was before Death started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. Now Death is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use.
But like every cutback in an important public service, Death's demise soon leads to chaos and unrestliterally, for those whose time was supposed to be up, like Windle Poons. The oldest geezer in the entire faculty of Unseen Universityhome of magic, wizardry, and big dinnersWindle was looking forward to a wonderful afterlife, not this boring been-there-done-that routine. To get the fresh start he deserves, Windle and the rest of Ankh-Morpork's undead and underemployed set off to find Death and save the world for the living(and everybody else, of course).
The Discworld novels can be read in any order, but Reaper Manis the second book in the Death series. The Death collection includes:
- Mort
- The Reaper Man
- Soul Music
- Hogfather
- Thief of Time
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