Chris's review of Jingo
Jingo (Discworld Novel) by Terry Pratchett
A strange foreign country across the sea, a moneyed aristocracy eager to send young men off to war, political operatives using a flimsy pretext to incite nationalist and racist fervor to encourage said war....
Sounds unpleasantly familiar, which is probably why I was drawn to reading this book.
This is one of the Watch books in the Discworld series, and like so many of those books deals with the intersection between law and politics. In this case, a mysterious island surfaces halfway between the great city-state of Ankh-Morpork and the desert empire of Klatch. Naturally, both nations claim the island as their own, and tempers flare. Next thing you know, there's armies being built, speeches being made and there's war in the air. And Sir Samuel Vimes, the commander of the Watch, is certain that someone is up to something, that there's a crime being committed. It might be a crime on the scale of nations, but it is a crime nonetheless.
It's a great book, and timely, like so many o...more
Sounds unpleasantly familiar, which is probably why I was drawn to reading this book.
This is one of the Watch books in the Discworld series, and like so many of those books deals with the intersection between law and politics. In this case, a mysterious island surfaces halfway between the great city-state of Ankh-Morpork and the desert empire of Klatch. Naturally, both nations claim the island as their own, and tempers flare. Next thing you know, there's armies being built, speeches being made and there's war in the air. And Sir Samuel Vimes, the commander of the Watch, is certain that someone is up to something, that there's a crime being committed. It might be a crime on the scale of nations, but it is a crime nonetheless.
It's a great book, and timely, like so many o...more
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