Death is missing - presumed...er...gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. Ghosts and poltergeists fill up the Discworld. Dead Rights activist Reg Shoe suddenly has more work than he had ever dreamed of. And the newly deceased wizard, Windle Poons, wakes up in his coffin to find that he has come back as a corpse. But it's up to Windle and the other members of Ankh-Mork's rather unfrightening group of undead to save the world for the living. Meanwhile, on a little farm, far away, a tall, dark stranger is turning out to be pretty good with a scythe...