And Moist’s girlfriend, the ironically named Adora Belle Dearheart, has dug up a treasure of her own – one that could turn the whole world upside down. The chief cashier, who has his own dark past, plots against Moist. Plus, someone who knows about Moist’s criminal past has come to town with blackmail on his mind. Soon Moist is in mortal danger as the Lavish family, shareholders in the Royal Bank, pauses in its internal squabbles and focuses its hostility on him. His ideas include moving the city off the gold standard, printing paper money, paying more interest to small depositors, and lending more money to people who need it.
Thrust unwillingly into this position, Moist quickly begins to make the best of it. And the heir to the dog is Moist von Lipwig. Yes, the heir to 51% of the bank’s stock is a dog. Before he knows what he’s doing, Moist is taking the new chairman of the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork for walkies. Though the Postmaster General initially balks, he soon finds this is one of those offers one can’t refuse. So Lord Vetinari, the Patrician of the city, challenges Moist to take on a new responsibility: to rejuvenate the struggling banking and monetary system. For a man like Moist, who has always lived dangerously, boredom can be deadly. But with complete success comes a lack of new challenges. Even the clacks service, under his control, has almost begun to break even. Moist von Lipwig has transformed the Post Office of Ankh-Morpork from a bottomless pit of undelivered mail into a fast-paced, successful mail service. For even after so many years and so many books, this one seems full of youthful energy and the promise of things to come. This second Moist von Lipwig novel also seems to be the last book in the long-running Discworld series.
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