Ebook {Epub PDF} Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6), Terry Pratchett On the morning of the 30th anniversary of the Glorious Revolution of the Twenty-Fifth of May (and as such the anniversary of the death of John Keel, Vimes' hero and former mentor), Sam Vimes — whose wife is in labor with their first child — is caught in a magical storm while pursuing Carcer, a notorious criminal. He awakens to find that he /5. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett It wasn’t that he’d liked being shot at by hooded figures in the temporary employ of his many and varied enemies, but he’d always looked at it as some kind of vote of confidence. Terry Pratchett's Night Watch was a great journey down a rather unusual memory lane to a time when a young more innocent Sam Vimes was just starting his career, and a young, never innocent, Vetinari was getting on with his as well/5(K).

― Terry Pratchett, quote from Night Watch "The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever.". "Night Watch" is probably the darkest and most contemplative of the Discworld books so far. Hardened copper Sam Vimes survives a magical storm only to find himself stranded in the past at the time of a terrible revolution; Carcer, a. The cover was drawn by Paul Kidby, his first cover for Pratchett: It is a parody of Rembrandt's painting The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch (more commonly known as, funnily enough, Night Watch). The original features on the back of the hardback edition.

Night Watch is the 29th novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, published in The working title for this book was The Nature of the Beast, but this was discarded when Frances Fyfield published a book with exactly that title in the UK in late Night Watch by Terry Pratchett It wasn’t that he’d liked being shot at by hooded figures in the temporary employ of his many and varied enemies, but he’d always looked at it as some kind of vote of confidence. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett pp, Doubleday, £ Terry Pratchett, like TS Eliot's Webster, has always been much possessed by death.