Night Watch: (Discworld Novel 29) (Discworld Novels) - Softcover

Terry Pratchett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055215430X ISBN 13: 9780552154307

Publisher: Corgi, 2011

Synopsis

'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes.'

For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer at loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution. The people have found their voice at last, the flags and barricades are rising...And the question for a policeman, an officer of the law, adefender of the peace, is:
Are you with them, or are you against them?

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Review:

The new Discworld novel Night Watch has the power and energy that characterizes Terry Pratchett at his occasional best, as well as the wild surreal humour he always gives us. Sam Vimes, running hero of the Guards sequence, finds himself cast back in time to the Ankh-Morpork of his youth--a much nastier city, with an actively deranged Patrician and a sadistic secret police--and finding himself filling in for Keel, the tough honest copper who teaches the young Vimes everything he knows. And, more worryingly, who dies heroically in the insurrection Vimes knows to be imminent. With a psychopath from his own time rising in the vile ranks of the Cable Street Unmentionables complicating things, Vimes has to ensure that history takes its course so that he will have the right future to go back to, and to keep his younger self alive--this is Pratchett's plotting at its most thoroughly constructed and wonderfully devious. Ankh-Morpork has for a long time been one of the most thoroughly imagined cities in fantasy--here Pratchett gives us a fascinating gloomy glimpse of its past and of the younger selves of some of his best-loved characters, and of the brief-lived People's Republic of Treacle-Mine Road. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

"The best Discworld book in the whole world ever. Until next time" (SFX)

"He is a satirist of enormous talent... His jokes slide under your skin as swiftly as a hypodermic syringe, leaving you giggling helplessly" (The Times)

"Terry Pratchett is one of the great inventors of secondary - or imaginative or alternative - worlds. He has the real energy of the primary storyteller" (A.S. Byatt The Times)

"He would be amusing in any form, and his spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction" (Mail on Sunday)

"He will remain an enduring, endearing presence in comic literature" (Guardian)

About this edition

• Publisher: Corgi
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 055215430X
• ISBN 13: 9780552154307
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480