Night Watch: Discworld Novel 26 (City Watch, #6) (Discworld, #29)

by Terry Pratchett

Sixth book of the original and best CITY WATCH series, now reinterpreted in BBC's The Watch


'The best Discworld book in the whole world ever. Until next time.' SFX

The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .

'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 loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution.

For Commander Sam Vimes, it all feels horribly familiar. Caught on the roof of a very magical building during a storm, he's found himself back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck. Living in the past is hard, especially when your time travel companion is a serial killer who knows where you live. But he must survive, because he has a job to do: track down the murderer and change the outcome of the rebellion.

The problem is: if he wins, he's got no wife, no child, no future...

• ISBN10: 0552148997
• ISBN13: 9780552148993
• Publish Date: 29 September 2003 (first published 1 November 2002)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Imprint: Corgi
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 429
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9780552148993

Reviews

[MurderByDeath]

I'm probably not doing this book justice with my rating, but as much as I think the writing is brilliant, it dragged for me badly.   I started it thinking it would work for my werewolf square in bingo, and by the time I realised it definitely wasn't (Agula the werewolf is only mentioned and never appears), it was too far in to stop.   This is a much deeper, more serious storyline that any of the other Discworld books I've read so far and there's a lot of political philosophy (and a fair amount of quantum physics).  It's brilliant political philosophy, but I was expecting werewolves, so Poli-Phi and string theory was more work than I was prepared for.  (Also, I'm not a fan of time travel plots.)   Still, this is Pratchett and as MT said, for a book I was complaining was hard work to get through, I was laughing out loud an awful lot.  Pratchett is a genius at using his words, and the scene involving the ox and the raw ginger had tears coming to my eyes (and likely theirs).  So many laugh out loud moments in this one that even though I'm glad it's over, I'm definitely also glad I've read it.