Book description
'Vimes ran a practised eye over the assortment before him. It was
the usual Ankh-Morpork mob in times of crisis; half of them were
here to complain, a quarter of them were here to watch the other
half, and the remainder were here to rob, importune or sell hotdogs
to the rest.'
Insurrection is in the air in Ankh-Morpork. The Haves and
Have-Nots are about to fall out all over again. Captain Sam Vimes of
the city's ramshackle Night Watch is used to this. It's enough to
drive a man to drink. Well, to drink more. But this time,
something is different - the Have-Nots have found the key to a
dormant, lethal weapon that even they don't fully understand, and
they're about to unleash a campaign of terror on the city. Time for
Captain Vimes to sober up.
Terry Pratchett
is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series,
the first of which,
The Colour of Magic
, was published in 1983. In all, he is the author of fifty bestselling
books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he
is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal and the
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction, as well as being
awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Worldwide sales of his
books now stand at 70 million, and they have been translated into
thirty-seven languages.
