The Fifth Elephant -

Terry Pratchett

HarperCollins

2000

389 páginas

12h 58m

ISBN-13: 9780061020407

Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren't there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it?...

When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. Even when he doesn't want to. He's been "invited" to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. The one role he relishes; the other requires, well, ruby tights. Of course where cops (even those clad in tights) go, alas, crime follows. An attempted assassination and a theft soon lead to a desperate chase from the low halls of Discworld royalty to the legendary fat mines of Uberwald, where lard is found in underground seams along with tusks and teeth and other precious ivory artifacts. It's up to the dauntless Vimes -- bothered as usual by a familiar cast of Discworld inhabitants (you know, trolls, dwarfs, werewolves, vampires and such) -- to solve the puzzle of the missing pachyderm. Which of course he does. After all, solving mysteries is his job.

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Vigésimo-quarto volume da saga Discworld e quinto do arco Vigilância da Cidade.

Misturando investigação e diplomacia, Pratchett constroi uma trama que envolve a política dos anões, assim finalmente expondo a organização que havia sido apenas mencionada em outros volumes. Há muitos detalhes, mas destaco a forma como uma sociedade em que a exposição de gênero é tabu terminou se desenvolvendo.

Um dos melhores momentos do livro ficou com a confrontação entre Vimes e os Lobisomens que acabou gerando parte da lenda do novo Stone-Face. As sequências desse arco farão várias menções a isso.

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