Guards! Guards! – Josh Kirby Paperback – Letterbox Edition
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Description
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett – Penguin Letterbox Edition (Josh Kirby cover)
Ankh-Morpork does not do heroes. It does guilds, graft, and a Night Watch that has learned the hard way that the best arrest is the one you avoid.
Captain Sam Vimes drinks. Sergeant Colon remembers better days. Corporal Nobbs is… Nobby. Then a six-foot farm boy called Carrot Ironfoundersson arrives with the Laws and Ordinances of Ankh-Morpork and the dangerous idea that the Watch should, in fact, watch.
Meanwhile a brotherhood of disappointed men has found a book, a ritual and a plan: summon a noble dragon, panic the city, install a king they can use. Dragons, unfortunately, do not stay summoned. They have opinions. They have appetite. They have very little interest in being someone else’s mascot.
What follows is Pratchett’s great city novel in miniature and the opening of the Watch sequence: street-level coppering, political farce, a librarian who is also an orangutan, Lady Sybil Ramkin and her endangered swamp dragons, and Vimes discovering that cynicism is not the same as giving up. First published in 1989, Guards! Guards! is Discworld novel 8. You can read it on its own. Many readers never stop there.
This new Letterbox paperback from Penguin uses Josh Kirby’s original cover: the look that first put Vimes, Carrot and a very large lizard on British shelves.The place to start the City Watch. The book that makes Ankh-Morpork feel like a real, filthy, living city.
- Discworld novel 8
- City Watch book 1
- Publisher: Penguin
- Cover artist: Josh Kirby
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- Size: approx. 198 mm × 128 mm × 27 mm
Additional information
| Weight | 350 g |
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