The Fifth ElephantSam Vines is a man on the run. Yesterday, he was a duke, a chief of police, and ambassador to the mysterious, fat rich country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilization, there's going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. They're werewolves and they're catching up. Sam Vimes is out of time and already out of breath.

off the Essex coast

and one thing has led to another

about the ramifications of playing with our genetic blue-print

Dr Svenson did not ask to be a chaperone to his Prince

Sigurd finds himself a prisoner of the powerful Jarl Guthrum

Suddenly the wider world becomes a frightening place where parents lie and questions go unanswered

It isn't until young police officer Sigurdís finds a well-hidden safe in his impersonal luxury apartment that clues start emerging

a lowly maid from an English estate with a striking resemblance to French royalty

Two glue-sniffing thugs are breaking into homes

Completing the informal trilogy which began with BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH and ON THE STEEL BREEZE

A thrilling story of Triss

and how cloning became a way to ensure power for a select group of people