Pyramids Author:Terry Pratchett Twelve-year-old Teppic, god-to-be, had been delighted when he was first sent to odoriferous, magic-filled Ankh-Morpork for seven years of his education. Training as an assassin had been great fun--at least the preliminaries were ... the course prior to the point at which he was actually expected to kill someone. As it happened, just before his... more » blades could be truly blooded, his father, pharaoh of the tiny kingdom of Djelibeybi, went to his untimely mummyhood. Summoned home to become the new ruler, poor Teppic found himself with all sorts of worries--not the least of them the fct that in a land which boasted more pyramids per triangular foot than any other, pyramid power was getting way out of control.« less