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  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407034904
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432
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Men At Arms

(Discworld Novel 15)




The fifteenth Discworld novel and second in the City Watch series - revamped with a fresh bold look targeting a new generation of fantasy fans.

'PEOPLE OUGHT TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES ... THE PROBLEM IS, PEOPLE ONLY THINK FOR THEMSELVES IF YOU TELL THEM TO.'

Times are a-changing in Ankh-Morpork's Night Watch.

New recruits have been hired to reflect the city's diversity, including Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), and Lance-constable Angua (a woman ... full moons aside).

What's more, Captain Sam Vimes is getting married and retiring from the Watch. For good. Which is a shame, because no one knows the streets of Ankh-Morpork or its criminal underworld better than him.

And someone armed and dangerous has been getting ideas about power and destiny and lost kings, committing a string of seemingly random murders across the city.

The new recruits will need to learn fast ...

'Funny, wise and mock heroic . . . the best-crafted book I have read all year' Sunday Express

Men At Arms is the second book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.

  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407034904
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432
Categories:

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About the author

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. He died in March 2015.

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Praise for Men At Arms

'Funny, wise and mock heroic...The funniest and best crafted book I have read all year'

Sunday Express

'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 ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable'

The Times

'This has everything to recommend it...one of his most inventive'

Daily Telegraph

'Pratchett's most intriguing yet'

The Times

'Persistently amusing, good-hearted and shrewd'

Sunday Times

'The great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody ... who deals with death with startling originality. Who writes amazing sentences'

New York Times

'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction'

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