Johnny and the Dead

Title: Johnny and the Dead
Author(s): Terry Pratchett
Release year: 1993
Publisher: HarperCollins

Why in Database: One of Pratchett’s books, with two turtle fragments in it.

‘Don’t think so. Anyway … they don’t eat sarnies in Mexico. They eat tort … something.’
‘Tortoises.’

Now there were three people sitting on the bench. Tommy Atkins had his peaked hat on his knees. The uniform didn’t really fit. He was still an old man, so his skinny neck stuck out of his collar like a tortoise’s. He had an old-fashioned sort of face—one designed to wear a cloth cap and work in the rubber boot factory. He saw Johnny staring at him, and winked, and gave him the thumbs-up sign.Then he went back to gazing intently at the road leading into the parking lot.

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