Night Watch is the sixth book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order. A five-part radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. If you have not yet acquainted yourself with this. Before I begin, I should preface this article by saying that Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series is probably my single favourite book series of all time, one which I grew up with and was a profound influence on my own writing and humour. The protagonist of the novel is Sir Samuel Vimes, commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. Prequel Problems: Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch. ‘The best Discworld book in the whole world ever. Night Watch is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 29th book in his Discworld series, and the sixth starring the City Watch, published in 2002. But he must survive, because he has a job to do: track down the murderer and change the outcome of the rebellion.Īnd get back to the future before his wife gives birth, of course. A non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller, and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback (Harper Torch, 2006) and trade paperback (Harper Paperbacks, 2006). It’s a case of wrong place, very wrong time.įor Vimes finds himself back in his own rough, tough past with only a killer for company and a city on the brink of revolution to contend with. When a notorious serial killer emerges from hiding, the chase leads the Watch to the roofs of Unseen University where a magical storm is brewing. The twenty-fifth of May is an important, sombre day in Ankh-Morpork – the anniversary of one of the city’s bloodiest rebellions.īut crime stops for nothing, as Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch knows.
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