It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar and it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. A 300-year-old wizard is after his girlfriend and he's about to be exposed as a fraud - but the Assassins Guild might get him first. Everywhere he looks he's making enemies. What he should be doing is ...Making Money!