Book detail: Thief Of Time: (Discworld Novel 26) is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.
In this installment of the Discworld series, the Auditors of Reality, beings who despise the messy unpredictability of life, decide to eliminate time itself. To do so, they create a perfect, unstoppable clock that will freeze the universe. The only hope lies with a young clockmaker named Jeremy, who is unwittingly drawn into the plot, and the eccentric martial arts master, Lu-Tze, a sweeper from the History Monks. Together with his apprentice, Lobsang, they must race against the clock to prevent the end of all time, facing philosophical questions about the nature of existence, the value of mortality, and the importance of living in the moment.
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