Now Available as Part of the Distinguished Penguin Modern Classics Collection
Join Sam Vimes in this gritty, time-traveling adventure through the streets of Ankh-Morpork. Now available as part of the distinguished Penguin Modern Classics collection, Night Watch showcases Terry Pratchett at his finest, blending sharp social commentary with unforgettable characters and dark humor.
This new paperback edition features the classic tale of Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, who finds himself thrown back in time during a pivotal moment in his city’s history. As he navigates the dangerous streets of his own past, Vimes must ensure that history takes its proper course while mentoring his younger self and facing one of his most formidable adversaries.
“In Night Watch, Vimes finds himself – along with a peculiarly unpleasant criminal called Carcer – caught in a time-warp, back in his own early days as a Watchman, trying to change the course of a bloody revolution. He is also concerned to prevent his own callow self as a lance-constable from getting killed, so that he may get back to the present and his child may be born. He has become a dead hero called John Keel, who helped to organise the barricades, but was also a Watch captain at Cable Street. His opponents include the corrupt Unmentionables, who arrest and torture people… [A] master storyteller… He is, of course, writing about us.” — A.S.Byatt
“Compulsively readable. . . . 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. He shares with Aristophanes a sense of the comedian’s mission to teach, and with Sophocles a concern to examine the rule of law versus the rights of the individual.”— Guardian
“Both comic and dark, blending high fantasy, twisted storytelling and all manner of wordplay… a fine place to start reading Pratchett” — New York Times Book Review
