Description
'PEOPLE OUGHT TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES ... THE PROBLEM IS, PEOPLE ONLY THINK FOR THEMSELVES IF YOU TELL THEM TO.'
Times are a-changing in Ankh-Morpork's Night Watch.
New recruits have been hired to reflect the city's diversity, including Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), and Lance-constable Angua (a woman ... full moons aside).
What's more, Captain Sam Vimes is getting married and retiring from the Watch. For good. Which is a shame, because no one knows the streets of Ankh-Morpork or its criminal underworld better than him.
And someone armed and dangerous has been getting ideas about power and destiny and lost kings, committing a string of seemingly random murders across the city.
The new recruits will need to learn fast ...
'Funny, wise and mock heroic . . . the best-crafted book I have read all year' Sunday Express
Men At Arms is the second book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
About the Author
Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.
www.terrypratchettbooks.com
Reviews
'Funny, wise and mock heroic...The funniest and best crafted book I have read all year'
* Sunday Express *'Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable'
* The Times *'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction'
* Mail on Sunday *'The great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody ... who deals with death with startling originality. Who writes amazing sentences'
* New York Times *'Persistently amusing, good-hearted and shrewd' * Sunday Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9781804990698
Author Terry Pratchett
Format Paperback
Page Count 432
Imprint Penguin (Transworld)
Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
Series Discworld Novels
Weight(grams) 300g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 126mm * 34mm
