Death is missing - presumed ... er ... gone, which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important service is withdrawn. Dead Rights activist Reg Shoe has more work than he ever dreamed of and newly deceased Wizard Poons wakes up in his coffin to find that he has come back as a corpse. It's up to Windle, and the members of Ankh-Morpork's group of undead, to save the world for the living.