The Fifth Elephant - Gatti Ninja

Published Sept. 5, 1999 by Doubleday.

ISBN:: 978-0-385-40995-7

(1 review)

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) -- …

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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4 stars

Il quinto libro della saga delle guardie ed il primo dove Carota ha un ruolo marginale.
La storia qua è incentrata sull'incoronazione del re dei nani nel vicino regno di Uberwald e su Vimes che è mandato come ambasciatore di Ankk-Morpork. Tuttavia, durante la permanenza dovrà mettere da parte il suo ruolo di diplomatico per rientrare nei panni del poliziotto ed investigare riguardo la scomparsa della "Scone of the Stone" (un trono-focaccina senza il quale l'incoronazione non può avvenire). Intrighi, diplomazia ed una città senza legge dove vampiri e lupi mannari (parenti di Angua) spadroneggiano e dettano legge renderanno il suo lavoro decisamente difficile.