The Truth

thought-provoking…Pratchett’s Discworld books are filled with humor and with magic, but they’re rooted in—of all things—real life and cold, hard reason.”
    Chicago Tribune
    “Simply the best humorous writer of the twentieth century.”
    Oxford Times
    “A brilliant storyteller with a sense of humor…The Dickens of the twentieth century.”
    Mail on Sunday (London)
    “As always he is head and shoulders above the best of the rest. He is screamingly funny. He is wise. He has style.”
    Daily Telegraph (London)
    “Terry Pratchett does for fantasy what Douglas Adams did for science fiction.”
    Today (Great Britain)
    “What makes Terry Pratchett’s fantasies so entertaining is that their humor depends on the characters first, on the plot second, rather than the other way around. The story isn’t there simply to lead from one slapstick pratfall to another pun. Its humor is genuine and unforced.”
    Ottawa Citizen

B OOKS BY T ERRY P RATCHETT
    The Carpet People
    The Dark Side of the Sun
    Strata
    Truckers
    Diggers
    Wings
    Only You Can Save Mankind
    Johnny and the Dead
    Johnny and the Bomb
    The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Jollife)
    Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)
    T HE D ISCWORLD S ERIES
    The Color of Magic*
    The Light Fantastic*
    Equal Rites*
    Mort*
    Sourcery*
    Wyrd Sisters*
    Pyramids*
    Guards! Guards!*
    Eric (with Josh Kirby)
    Moving Pictures
    Reaper Man
    Witches Abroad
    Small Gods*
    Lords and Ladies*
    Men at Arms*
    Soul Music*
    Feet of Clay*
    Interesting Times*
    Maskerade*
    Hogfather*
    Jingo*
    The Last Continent*
    Carpe Jugulum*
    The Fifth Elephant*
    The Truth*
    Mort: A Discworld Big Comic (with Graham Higgins)
    The Streets of Ankh-Morpork (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Discworld Companion (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Discworld Mapp (with Stephen Briggs)
    A ND IN H ARDCOVER
    Thief of Time

    *Published by HarperCollins

Copyright
    This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
    THE TRUTH . Copyright © 2000 by Terry and Lyn Pratchett. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
    EPub Edition © August 2007 ISBN: 9780061807671
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