Making Money by Terry Pratchett

Though all Terry Pratchett books can be read as stand alone books you will enjoy this one more if you have read Going Postal where Moist von Lipwig given another chance uses his wiles as a con man to save the post office. Now he is ‘persuaded’ to do the same for the banking system.

There are all the usual jokes, vampires, werewolves, assassin’s guild but this series of books (Raising Taxes is next) is not as good as his witches books even though he does include the unseen university as he needs the advice of a dead wizard.

There is the usual sub-plot of having a dig at society i.e. that the banking system runs on trust and can be easily toppled (very topical).