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The Fifth Elephant is the twenty-fourth Discworld novel, published in 1999, and the sixth novel to focus on the Ankh-Morpork City Watch.The title is a reference to the Fifth Element. It introduces the Clacks, a long-distance semaphore system.
Samuel Vimes, Commander of the City Watch of Ankh-Morpork and Duke of Ankh, thought that things were bad enough when he was forced to go to Überwald — a largely wild territory—on a diplomatic mission. That was before he found himself entangled in a plot to spark the dwarf equivalent of a holy war, not to mention running naked in the frozen wastelands of Überwald with werewolves on his trail.
| Preceded by Jingo |
6th City Watch Story Published in 1999 |
Succeeded by Night Watch |
| Discworld reading order | Full article |
