Sam Vimes has to choose between the two great loves of his lives, and either way the loss is unbearably great. It is also about having to make the hard decisions. The heart of this story is about people, and being human, and doing the right thing, and bad things happening anyway. Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a Hard-boiled Egg!Īnyone who speaks disparagingly of fantasy novels, or genre fiction in general, should read Night Watch and then try to tell me that it’s just escapism or fluff, or whatever dismissive snobbery they hide behind.īecause, yes, this story has time travel and magic, but they are unimportant, irrelevant. The problem is: if he wins, he’s got no wife, no child, no future…Ī Discworld Tale of One City, with a full chorus of street urchins, ladies of negotiable affection, rebels, secret policemen and other children of the revolution. He must track down the murderer and change the outcome of the rebellion. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He’s back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck.
Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution.įor Commander Sam Vimes, it all feels horribly familiar. People die, and nothing changes.’įor a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer loose in your city. This book has made me weep every time I have read it and this latest re-read was no exception.īlurb: ‘Don’t put your trust in revolutions.
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