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One moment, Sir Sam Vimes is in his old patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. The next, he's lying naked in the street, having been sent back thirty years courtesy of a group of time-manipulating monks who won't leave well enough alone. This... read more

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Head of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch Sam Vimes is taken 30 years in the past by a magical storm while chasing a murderer. He needs to coach his younger self and catch the killer, while saving the city from total anarchy.

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  • “"All the little angels rise up, rise up..."”
  • “'Like petty criminals everywhere, the watchmen prided themselves on there being some depths to which they would not sink. There had to be some things below you, even if it was only mud worms.'”
  • “'It wasn't that the city was lawless. It had plenty of laws. I just didn't offer many opportunities not to break them. Swing didn't seem to have grasped the idea that the system was supposed to take criminals and, in some rough-and-ready fashion, force them into becoming honest men. Instead, he'd taken honest men and turned them into criminals.'”
  • “'Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. After ten years, you thought you'd seen it all, but the shadows always dished up more. You saw how close men lived to The Beast. You found that people like Carcer were not mad. The were incredibly sane. The were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with The Beast.'”
  • “When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend.”
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Sam Vimes sighed when he heard the scream, but he finished shaving before he did anything about it.

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This is book 29 of 54 in Discworld. (standard series)

Preceded by The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, and followed by The Wee Free Men.

This is book 6 of 8 in Ankh-Morpork City Watch. (standard series)

Preceded by The Fifth Elephant, and followed by Thud!.

This is book 73 of 200 in BBC 'Big Read' Top 200 Novels, 2003. (authoritative list)

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  1. Terry Pratchett (Author)

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Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 2002
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Page Count: 432

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