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03546aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 6A243A1E505611E99CDA2C4797128E48 003 SILO 005 20190327010156 008 141110t20142005nyu 000 1 eng 020 $a 0062334980 020 $a 9780062334985 035 $a (OCoLC)894925156 040 $a ORX $b eng $e rda $c ORX $d CGP $d YDXCP $d KAY $d SILO 050 4 $a PR6066.R34 $b T49 2014 082 04 $a 823/.914 $2 23 100 1 $9 190188 $a Pratchett, Terry $e author. 245 10 $a Thud! : $b a novel of Discworld / $c Terry Pratchett. 260 $a New York : $b HarperCollins, $c c2005. 300 $a 434 pages ; $c 20 cm 490 1 $a Discworld series 520 $a A seemingly routine day in the life of City Watch commander Sam Vimes is abruptly interrupted by an unsolved murder, an impending war, an unwanted new recruit, and a pesky government inspector. By the author of Going Postal. It's a game of Trolls and Dwarfs where the player must take both sides to win. It's the noise a troll club makes when crushing in a dwarf skull, or when a dwarfish axe cleaves a trollish cranium. It's the unsettling sound of history about to repeat itself. THUD! It's the most extraordinary, outrageous, provocative, insightful, and keenly cutting flight of fancy yet from Discworld's incomparable supreme creator, Terry Pratchett. Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch admits he may not be the sharpest knife in the cutlery drawer. He might not even be a spoon. But he's dogged and honest and he'll be damned if he lets anyone disturb his city's always tentative peace, and that includes a rabble-rousing dwarf from the sticks (or deep beneath them) who's been stirring up big trouble on the eve of the anniversary of one of Discworld's most infamous historical events. Centuries earlier, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, a horde of trolls met a division of dwarfs in bloody combat. Though nobody's quite sure why they fought or who actually won, hundreds of years on each species still bears the cultural scars, and one views the other with simmering animosity and distrust. Lately, an influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting unrest among Ankh-Morpork's more diminutive citizens with incendiary speeches. And it doesn't help matters when the pint-size provocateur is discovered beaten to death, with a troll club lying conveniently nearby. Vimes knows the well-being of his smoldering city depends on his ability to solve the Hamcrusher homicide without delay. (Vimes's secondmost-pressing responsibility, in fact, next to being home every evening at six sharp to read Where's My Cow? to Young Sam.) Whatever it takes to unstick this very sticky situation, Vimes will do it, even tolerating having a vampire in the Watch. But there's more than one corpse waiting for him in the eerie, summoning darkness of the vast, labyrinthine mine network the dwarfs have been excavating in secret beneath Ankh-Morpork's streets. A deadly puzzle is pulling Sam Vimes deep into the muck and mire of superstition, hatred, and fear, and perhaps all the way to Koom Valley itself. 650 0 $a Vimes, Samuel (Fictitious character) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Discworld (Imaginary place) $v Fiction. $9 236800 655 7 $a Satire. $2 lcgft $9 233194 655 7 $9 802181 $a Fantasy fiction $2 gsafd 830 0 $a Discworld series. 941 $a 2 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010032222.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909035745.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6A243A1E505611E99CDA2C4797128E48 994 $a C0 $b KAYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search