Making money
(Book)

Amazingly, former arch-swindler turned Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig has somehow managed to get the woefully inefficient Ankh-Morpork Post Office running like, well, not a government office at all. Now the surpreme despot Lord Vetinari is asking Moisty if he'd like to make some real money. Vetinari wants Moist to resuscitate the venerable Royal Mint so that perhaps it will no longer cost considerably more than a penny to make a penny. Moist doesn't want the jon. However, a request from Ankh-Morpork's current ruling tyrant isn't a "request" per se, more like a "once in a lifetime offer you can certainly refuse if you feel like you've lived quite long enough." So Moist will just have to learn to deal with elderly Royal Bank chairman Topsy (Née Turvy) Lavish and her two loaded crossbows, a face lapping Mint manager and a chief clerk who's probably a vampire. But he'll soon be making lethal enemies as well as money, especially if he can't figure out where all the gold has gone. ,from the back cover