Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett [128]
THE ACCOLADES!
THE ADORATION!
Acclaim for Bestselling Author
Terry Pratchett
“Unadulterated fun…witty, frequently hilarious. Pratchett parodies everything in sight.”
San Francisco Chronicle
“Pratchett continues to distinguish himself from his colleagues with clever plot lines and genuinely likable characters.”
Publishers Weekly (*Starred Review*)
“Think J.R.R. Tolkien with a sharper, more satiric edge.”
Houston Chronicle
“If I were making my list of Best Books of the Twentieth Century, Terry Pratchett’s would be most of them.”
Elizabeth Peters
BOOKS BY TERRY PRATCHETT
The Carpet People
The Dark Side of the Sun
Strata • Truckers
Diggers • Wings
Only You Can Save Mankind
Johnny and the Dead • Johnny and the Bomb
The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Jollife)
Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)
THE DISCWORLD® SERIES:
Going Postal • Monstrous Regiment • Night Watch
The Last Hero • The Truth • Thief of Time
The Fifth Elephant • Carpc Jugulum
The Last Continent • Jingo
Hogfather • Feet of Clay • Maskerade
Interesting Times • Soul Music • Men at Arms
Lords and Ladies • Small Gods
Witches Abroad • Reaper Man
Moving Pictures • Eric (with Josh Kirby)
Guards! Guards! • Pyramids
Wyrd Sisters • Sourcery • Mort • Equal Rites
The Light Fantastic • The Color of Magic
Mort: A Discworld Big Comic (with Graham Higgins)
The Streets of Ankh-Morpork (with Stephen Briggs)
The Discworld Companion (with Stephen Briggs)
The Discworld Mapp (with Stephen Briggs)
The Pratchett Portfolio (with Paul Kidby)
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from t1:09 PM 6/11/2007he author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
MEN AT ARMS. Copyright © 1993 by Terry and Lyn Pratchett. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition © JUNE 2007 ISBN: 9780061804717
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*But no gentleman would dream of being trained as a Thief.
*Often with discreet plaques under them modestly recording the name of the person who’d killed them. This was the Assassins’ portrait gallery, after all.
*From the point of view of the species as a whole. Not from the point of view of the dragon now landing in small pieces around the landscape.
*Fingers-Mazda, the first thief in the world, stole fire from the gods. But he was unable to fence it. It was too hot†
† He got really burned on that deal.
*The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.
*There’s always one.
*This is another survival trait.
*Because he was an early form of free-thinking scientist, and did not believe that human beings had been created by some sort of divine being. Dissecting people