Night Watch

<p><strong><em>Night Watch</em> turns out to be an unexpectedly moving novel about sacrifice and responsibility its final scenes leaving one near tears. . . Terry Pratchett may still be pegged as a comic novelist but . . . he's a lot more. -- <em>Washington Post Book World</em></strong></p><p><strong>Getting knocked back in time thirty years Sam Vines Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch experiences a day like no other in which past present and future collide with hilarious--and poignant--results in this rollicking Discworld adventure from Terry Pratchett.</strong></p><p>One moment Commander of the City Watch Sam Vimes is chasing a murderer across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. The next he's lying in the street below naked--and back in his own tough past thanks to a lightning strike and a group of meddling time-manipulating monks.</p><p>It's a dark Discworld that is all too familiar. Worse the cop-killing psychopath he'd been pursuing has been transported back with him and it's the eve of a deadly street rebellion that took a few good (and not so good) lives. Vimes is determined to do his duty-- track down the murderer and change the outcome of the rebellion. By changing history he might just save some worthwhile necks and steer a novice watchman straight--an impressionable young copper named Sam Vimes.</p><p>But if he succeeds Sam knows it could cost him the future--including the job and the family he loves.</p><p>The Discworld novels can be read in any order but <em>Night Watch</em> is the sixth book in the City Watch series. The series includes: </p><ul><em>Guards! Guards!</em></li><em>Men at Arms</em></li><em>Feet of Clay</em></li><em>Jingo</em></li><em>The Fifth Elephant</em></li><em>Night Watch</em></li><em>Thud!</em></li><em>Snuff</em></li></ul>