The Fifth Elephant

'Precisely balanced ... a cracking comic thriller' - The Times   The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is ...   Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It's lying, only for a better class of people.   They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That mastering it is a lifetime's work. But you do need a certain inclination in that direction.