One comes away, as always, with the feeling that if Ankh-Morpork isn't a real place, it bloody well ought to be. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Night Watch: A Novel of Discworld. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. The author lightens Vimes's decidedly dark situation with glimpses into the origins of several of the more unique denizens of Ankh-Morpork. Night Watch: A Novel of Discworld - Kindle edition by Pratchett, Terry. The only way Vimes can hope to return home-and ensure he has a future to return home to-is to take on Keel's role. Version of the past, Carcer has killed Keel. Three decades earlier, a man named John Keel took over the Night Watch and taught young Sam Vimes how to be a good cop before dying in that rebellion. Terry Pratchetts Night Watch - politically inspiring, gloriously funny Reading group: In this book we see the author maturing along with his storytelling skills, while losing none of his wit. Vimes manages to corner a murderer, Carcer, on the library dome at Unseen University during a tremendous storm, only to be zapped back in time 30 years, to an Ankh-Morpork where the Watch is a joke, the ruling Patrician mad and the city on the verge of rebellion. He has a title, his wife is due to give birth to their first child any moment and he hasn't had to pound a beat in ages-but that doesn't stop him from missing certain bits of his old life. But now he’s back in his own rough, tough past, without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck. Pragmatic Sam Vimes, Commander of Ankh-Morpork's City Watch, can't complain. Truth Justice Freedom And a hard-boiled egg Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. British author Pratchett's storytelling, a clever blend of Monty Pythonesque humor and Big Questions about morality and the workings of the universe, is in top form in his 28th novel in the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series ( The Last Hero, etc.).
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