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'''''Jingo''''' is the 21st ''[[Discworld]]'' novel and the fourth in the City Watch theme. It's written as a criticism of war, with particular reference to the Falklands Conflict and the first Gulf War of 1990-1...
Politics is a funny thing, and all the more so on the Discworld. When the sunken island of [[Atlantis|Leshp]] rises again, the bustling metropolis of Ankh-Morpork and the Arabic [[Expy]] Klatch both stake claims to it - diplomacy leading to riots, assassinations, and eventually war. Commander Vimes is determined to keep the peace as much as he can - unless it involves the bastard who he suspects of murder getting away with it.
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Soon Vimes and his ragtag group of Night Watchmen find themselves in the unfamiliar deserts of Klatch, trying to stop the war before it starts. In the meantime, Lord Vetinari is on his own quest, with designs of his own on the direction the future should take - and oddly enough, it involves Sergeant Colon, Nobby Nobbs, Leonard of Quirm, and at least one donkey.
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* [[Alien Geometries]]: For all the fighting being done over Leshp, nobody who actually visits the place wants to stay for long...
* [[All the Myriad Ways]]: At a moment of crisis decision - whether to pursue Ahmed's ship or stay in Ankh-Morpork where he might be needed - the timeline splits, and Vimes accidentally picks up the other timeline's Vimes' Dis-organiser, which reads off the other Vimes' appointments. {{spoiler|Thus, he is able to find out, at the end, [[Kill'Em All|just what would have happened]] [[For Want of a Nail|if he had stayed behind]]...}}
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* [[For Halloween I Am Going as Myself]]: The Klatchians that Colon talks to immediately realise he's a spy, but believe he's so blatantly obviously a Morporkian spy that he must actually be from another country and trying to implicate Ankh-Morpork.
** Which, as it happens, {{spoiler|is [[Fridge Brilliance|very much like the real villain's scheme to deflect suspicion for the assassination attempt!]]}}
* [[Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt]]: Played about with the "clumsily set up to look like it's Klatchian-funded" assassination attempt. {{spoiler|Actually, in a double bluff, it actually ''is'' Klatchian-funded.}}▼
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: The Dis-Organizer's very creepy alternate timeline.
▲* [[Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt]]: Played about with the "clumsily set up to look like it's Klatchian-funded" assassination attempt. {{spoiler|Actually, in a double bluff, it actually ''is'' Klatchian-funded.}}
* [[Full-Frontal Assault]]: A couple of Mooks on the Klatchian ship are attacked by a naked Angua.
* [[Giant Robot Hands Save Lives]]: When the Klatchian embassy is on fire, Vimes saves a Klatchian woman by throwing her out of the window and letting Detritus catch her. Detritus is a ''troll''. He is ''made of rock''.
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* [[Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die]]: Carrot's attempt at a [[Rousing Speech]]. It still works, because it's Carrot.
{{quote|'''Carrot''': "If we succeed, no one will remember! And if we fail, no one will forget!"}}
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* [[Grievous Harm with a Body]]: In the dunes in Klatch, when the Klatchian soldiers cut off Reg's arm he hits them with it until they run away screaming. (He's a zombie, so it's not as bad as you think). Detritus also attacked people by hurling other people.
* [[Heroic Fire Rescue]]: Vimes. Parodied when he gets accused of trespassing (of the embassy on fire) and kidnap (of the woman he rescued).
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* [[Title Drop]]: Doubling as a parody of the 19th-century song that led to the term "[[wikipedia:Jingoism|Jingoism]]". "We have no ships. We have no men. We have no money, too."
* [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]: After being repeatedly abused and ending up organizing a different universe than the one he was in, the Disorganizer was able to get a nice, easy job scheduling the life of a shark.
* [[Truth in Television]]: The main driver of the plot, an island rising from the bottom of the sea and being the source of diplomatic disputes? ''Really happened''. Ferdinandea, or Graham Island, was a volcanic island that rose from the ocean and was the cause of a four-way dispute regarding
** And it's not the only time such a commotion developed around an [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/cif-green/2010/mar/24/india-bangladesh-sea-levels island that likes to disappear].
* [[Turn in Your Badge]]: Lord Rust has Vimes hand his in, at which point the other present watchmen proceed to turn in theirs out of loyalty to Vimes. Except Detritus, whose [[All Trolls Are Different|badge is carved into his skin]].
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