Imagine a million clever rats. Rats that don't run. Rats that fight...

Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has the perfect money-making scam. He's found a stupid-looking kid who plays a pipe, and he has his very own plague of rats - rats who are strangely educated, so Maurice can no longer think of them as 'lunch'. And everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers...

But when they reach the stricken town of Bad Blintz, the little con suddenly goes down the drain. For someone there is playing a different tune. A dark, shadowy tune. Something very, very bad is waiting in the cellars.

The educated rats must learn a new word.

EVIL

It's not a game any more. It's a rat-eat-rat world down there. And that might only be the start...

 


I've been reading the Discworld books since I was about 15, and so when I heard that Terry was attempting to write a novel for younger readers set in that strange world I could hardly pass up the chance to read it. I'm not sure quite what I'm expecting, though I hope Pratchett manages to deliver his usual multifaceted story but with a slightly younger frame of reference. I hope I can keep up!