' Look after the dead' said the priests 'and the dead will look after you' Wise words in all probability but a tall order when like Teppic you have just become the pharaoh of a small & penniless country rather earlier than expected & your treasury is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead father He'd had the best education money could buy of course but unfortunately the syllabus at the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not cover running a kingdom & basic financial acumen