Discworld - As Good as Any Man

Monstrous Regiment is another book that has our favorite characters in it only peripherally.  Even Death appears as only an apparition or hallucination.  But it is another fun read.  It even only has fantasy elements as things that have been established.  Sure there's a vampire and a troll in the regiment, but they're just treated as people.

The end is left a little open ended as to just what is going to happen, and leaves you wondering.

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Recurring themes and characters that appear in this book:

Angua, Sergeant

Black Ribbon – the Uberwald League of Temperance

Borogravia

Buggy Swires, Corporal

Burleigh and Stronginthearm

Cabbage

Death

Havelock Vetinari, Patrician

Jolly Sailor Tobacco

Leonard of Quirm

Lord Ronald Rust

Low King of the Dwarves, Rhys Ryhsson

Nuggan
Offler, the Crocodile-Headed God

Om

Otto Chriek

Reg Shoe, Corporal

Sam Vimes, Knight, Duke, Commander

Tacticus, General

The Ankh-Morpork Times

The Clacks System

The Unorthodox Potato Church

William de Worde