Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has the perfect money-making scam. Everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice has a stupid-looking kid with a pipe, and his very own plague of rats ― strangely educated rats...
But in Bad Blintz, the little con suddenly goes down the drain. For someone there is playing a different tune and now the rats must learn a new word.
EVIL.
It's not a game any more. It's a rat-eat-rat world. And that might only be the start...
(Source: Back of book)
A flawed translation but a fun read
This is the Japanese translation of Sir Terry Pratchett's first Discworld book for young readers, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. 'The Amazing' Maurice is a talking cat and con artist, who has been travelling from town to town with a troupe of likewise talking rats and a stupid-looking kid, scamming officials by bringing them a 'rat plague' and then pied-pipering the rats away. The town of Bad Blintz is meant to be their last job... but something is very wrong here.
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