Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17) Audiobook (Free)

‘A foot around the neck is nine points of the legislation’

There are plenty of who say that the art of diplomacy can be an intricate and complex dance between two informed partners, determined by an elaborate set of elegant and unwritten rules. There are others who maintain that it’s only a matter of who carries the biggest stick. Like whenever a large, intensely fortified and armoured empire makes a faintly menacing request of a much smaller, infinitely even more cowardly neighbour. It would be churlish, if not really extremely dangerous, not to comply – especially if all they need is a wizard, and they don’t identify whether competence can be an issue…