title: Making Money (Discworld)
author:  Terry Pratchett 
description: Reprieved confidence trickster Moist von Lipwig, who reorganized the Ankh-Morpork Post Office in 2004's <I>Going Postal</I>, turns his attention to the Royal Mint in this splendid Discworld adventure. It seems that the aristocratic families who run the mint are running it into the ground, and benevolent despot Lord Vetinari thinks Moist can do better. Despite his fondness for money, Moist doesn't want the job, but since he has recently become the guardian of the mint's majority shareholder (an elderly terrier) and snubbing Vetinari's offer would activate an Assassins Guild contract, he reluctantly accepts. Pratchett throws in a mad scientist with a working economic model, disappearing gold reserves and an army of golems, once more using the Disc as an educational and entertaining mirror of human squabbles and flaws <I>(Oct.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: MAKING MONEY
  A NOVEL OF DISCWORLD™
  Terry Pratchett
  Copyright ©  2007 by Terry and Lyn Pratchett
  
  CHAPTER 1
  Waiting in darkness  A bargain sealed 
  The hanging man  Golem with a blue dress on
   Crime and punishment  A chance to make real
  money
   The chain of goldish  No unkindness to bears
   Mr.  Bent keeps time
  THEY LAY IN the dark, guarding. There was no way of measuring the
  passage of time, nor any inclination to measure it. There was a time when
  they had not been here, and there would be a time, presumably, when they
  would, once more, not be here. They would be somewhere else. This time
  in between was immaterial.
  But some had shattered and some, the younger ones, had gone silent.
  The weight was increasing.
  Something must be done.
  One of them raised his mind in song.
  IT WAS A hard bargain, but hard on whom? That was the question. And
  Mr. Blister the lawyer wasn’t getting an answer. He would have liked an
  
  answer. When parties are interested in unprepossessing land, it might just
  pay for 