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Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

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  • 2004
  • #Fantasy #Fiction
Terry Pratchett
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Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It was a tough decision.... Show More

Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet.

It was a tough decision.

But he has to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers' Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer.

Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too.

Maybe it'll take a criminal to succeed where honest men have failed, or maybe it's a death sentence either way.

Or perhaps there's a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail, waiting for a man who's prepared to push the envelope...

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Number of Pages: 394

ISBN: 0060502932

ISBN-13: 9780060502935

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Pavel Sirotkin @psirotkin ยท Jan 9, 2023
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Some of the later Discworld books (e.g. The Truth, Going Postal), although they're more about technologies which lead to social changes.
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