Pyramids: Terry Pratchett

`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 and penniless country rather earlier than expected, and 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 and basic financial acumen...