Oh, Anck-Morpork, great city of contrasts! What are you doing with your faithful sons? Mokritz von Lipwig in hard thinking. On the one hand, the life of an honest person who (oh horror!) regularly pays taxes leads to a certain longevity. On the other hand, such a life is boring to the point of gnashing teeth, which is especially clear in the light of the new proposal of Patricia Vitinari to engage in reforming the banking system of the city. However, Mokritz remembers too well that the life of a decent fraudster is not only fun and cheerful, but also sadly short. Having chosen the path of a pious citizen, the chief postmaster does not yet know that he will become the owner of the charming Shalopai - a cute dog who owns a majority stake in the Royal Bank of Ank-Morpork. For the first time in Russian!