Mr. Slant is the head of the Guild of Lawyers in Ankh-Morpork. He is always involved in shadowy business but never caught out committing a crime. He died ages ago, but that has never stopped him from continuing his work.

It is usually reported that he became a zombie as he wished to pursue the financial disbursements involved in conducting his own defence at the trial that lead to his execution.

In The Truth we discover that one of the few things he fears is fire.

Among the people who fear Mr Slant are the rest of the lawyers of Ankh-Morpork, as seen in Making Money. Not only has he read those big intimidating books that they keep behind them on shelves to scare their clients, he has in fact WRITTEN many of them. Plus he has been around so long that he almost counts as legal precedent on his own. <br><br><p align="right"><a href="http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Slant">read more</a></p>