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Interesting Times
(Discworld Novel 17)
Author: Terry Pratchett
Series: Discworld Novels #17
Narrator: Tony Robinson
Abridged: 3 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Transworld Digital
Published: 01/04/2007
Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Humorous Fiction, Action & Adventure, Epic, Satire, Humorous
Synopsis
'A foot on the neck is nine points of the law'
There are many who say that the art of diplomacy is an intricate and complex dance between two informed partners, determined by an elaborate set of elegant and unwritten rules. There are others who maintain that it's merely a matter of who carries the biggest stick. Like when a large, heavily fortified and armoured empire makes a faintly menacing request of a much smaller, infinitely more cowardly neighbour. It would be churlish, if not extremely dangerous, not to comply - particularly if all they want is a wizard, and they don't specify whether competence is an issue...
There are many who say that the art of diplomacy is an intricate and complex dance between two informed partners, determined by an elaborate set of elegant and unwritten rules. There are others who maintain that it's merely a matter of who carries the biggest stick. Like when a large, heavily fortified and armoured empire makes a faintly menacing request of a much smaller, infinitely more cowardly neighbour. It would be churlish, if not extremely dangerous, not to comply - particularly if all they want is a wizard, and they don't specify whether competence is an issue...