LE FABULEUX MAURICE ET SES RONGEURS SAVANTS (S F ET FANTASTIQUE)

Winner of the 2001 Carnegie MedalOne rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town.They'd have been really amazed if they'd ever found out that the rats and the piper met up with a cat somewhere outside of town and solemnly counted out the money.The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits. For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with deadly traps, and where a terrifying evil lurks beneath the hunger-stricken streets....Set in Terry Pratchett's widely popular Discworld, this masterfully crafted, gripping read is both compelling and funny. When one of the world's most acclaimed fantasy writers turns a classic fairy tale on its head, no one will ever look at the Pied Piper -- or rats -- the same way again! Vous connaissez l'histoire du joueur de flûte de Hameln? Les rats avaient envahi la ville, les habitants se désespéraient ; un joueur de flûte vint les sauver, qui ensorcela les rats au son de son instrument et les fit quitter la ville derrière lui pour les noyer dans la rivière. Imaginez maintenant des rats intelligents qui soient de mèche avec le joueur de flûte ... et pilotés par le roi de l'arnaque soi-même, le fabuleux Maurice, le chat de tous les chats. Ça, c'est une combine qui peut rapporter gros. Jusqu'au jour où la fine équipe s'attaque au bourg de Bad Igoince où l'attendent le mystère, la terreur et le Mal. [4ème de couverture]