{"product_id":"9780552167598-jingo","title":"Jingo","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Discworld Novel 21)\u003cbr\u003e'Neighbours. hah. People'd live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their way to work, and then some trivial thing would happen and someone would be having a garden fork removed from their ear.' And when the neighbours in question are the empires of Klatch and Ankh-Morpork, those are going to be large garden tools indeed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA paperback edition with the original cover art of the classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the fourth book in the \u003ci\u003eCity Watch \u003c\/i\u003eseries, part of the \u003ci\u003eDiscworld\u003c\/i\u003e novels.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Generous, amusing and \u003cb\u003ethe ideal boarding point for those who have never visited Discworld'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Terry Pratchett was \u003cb\u003ea genius\u003c\/b\u003e’ 5-star reader review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘It was so much easier to blame it on them. It was bleakly depressing to think that they were us.’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWar is brewing on the Discworld.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn island has appeared from the ocean depths, right in the middle of the sea which separates the proud empires of Klatch and Ankh-Morpork. Of course, no one would dream of starting a war with the neighbours without a perfectly good reason . such as a 'strategic' piece of old rock, for instance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when a Klatchian Prince is almost assassinated, peace talks break down and violent nationalism begins to spread. Ankh-Morpork prepares to fight. Only thing is, they don't have an army. Or much in the way of weapons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommander Sam Vimes and the 'officially disbanded' City Watch get caught up in a deadly political game where the enemy appears to be on both sides, and no one will listen to reason.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd if they don't stop this absurd war, no one will .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJingo\u003ci\u003e is the fourth book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for the \u003ci\u003eDiscworld\u003c\/i\u003e series:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[Pratchett’s] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series \u003cb\u003eone of the perennial joys of modern fiction'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Pratchett is \u003cb\u003ea master storyteller\u003c\/b\u003e’ \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of our greatest fantasists, \u003c\/b\u003eand beyond a doubt\u003cb\u003e the funniest' \u003c\/b\u003eGeorge R.R. 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