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 anymore. It''s a rat-eat-rat world. And that might only be the start . . .''Ethically challenging, beautifully orchestrated, philosophically opposed to the usual plot fixes of fantasy.'' The Guardian ''An astonishing novel'' Financial TimesWritten by the beloved and acclaimed fantasty writer, Terry Pratchett.