Guards! Guards!
(Discworld Novel 8)
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4.6 • 67 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
'NOBLE DRAGONS DON'T HAVE FRIENDS. THE NEAREST THEY CAN GET TO THE IDEA IS AN ENEMY WHO IS STILL ALIVE.'
The city of Ankh-Morpork is in turmoil, its citizens revolting. Again.
A shadowy secret brotherhood has summoned a dragon to spread terror throughout the city, intent on overthrowing the Patrician and ruling in his place. Too bad the dragon has ideas of its own ...
It's up to Captain Sam Vimes and the ramshackle Night Watch to stop it. Only problem is, the Watch are more used to dealing with mobs than dragons.
And if they can't bring down this fire-breathing tyrant and reinstate their own, slightly less dangerous one, Ankh-Morpork might be lost. For ever...
'This is one of Pratchett's best books. Hilarious and highly recommended' The Time
Guards! Guards! is the first book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
Customer Reviews
The start of something amazing!
This is the first Discworld novel starring Sam Vimes and the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. For those of you who are already familiar with the genius of Terry Prattchet, I shall just exchange a knowing look and a smug smile because you are one of the blessed who already know what that man can do with words...
For those of you considering giving it a try, I am so jealous... Because you get to read them for the first time. Guards! Guards! is a relatively early work and despite being brilliant, I would not say it is his best BUT it is the first of the City Watch books and therefore the start of something special. Prattchet himself seems more like a wizard than a watchman but I assure you he knows cops inside and out.
Watching Sam Vimes drag the corrupted husk of the watch kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat to become the multicultural and modern police force it is today has been one of the great pleasures of my reading life and that is a journey that starts here. Begin... I assure you, it is a path you will be glad you took.
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