Guards! Guards!

A paperback edition with the original cover art of the classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the first book in the City Watch series, part of the Discworld novels.<BR><BR>'This is one of Pratchett's best books. Hilarious and highly recommended' The Times<BR><BR>'Possibly the funniest book ever written' 5-star reader review<BR><BR>'Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.'<BR><BR>The city of Ankh-Morpork is in turmoil, its citizens revolting. Again.<BR><BR>A shadowy secret brotherhood has summoned a dragon to spread terror throughout the city, intent on overthrowing the Patrician and ruling in his place. Too bad the dragon has ideas of its own ...<BR><BR>It's up to Captain Sam Vimes and the ramshackle Night Watch to stop it. Only problem is, the Watch are more used to dealing with mobs than dragons.<BR><BR>And if they can't bring down this fire-breathing tyrant and reinstate their own, slightly less dangerous one, Ankh-Morpork might be lost. For ever...<BR><BR>Guards! Guards! is the first book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.<BR><BR>Praise for the Discworld series:<BR><BR>'[Pratchett's] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday<BR><BR>'Pratchett is a master storyteller.' Guardian<BR><BR>'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin<BR><BR>'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone' Daily Express<BR><BR>'One of the most consistently funny writers around' Ben Aaronovitch<BR><BR><BR>'Masterful and brilliant' Fantasy & Science Fiction<BR><BR>'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own... he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable' The Times<BR><BR>'The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph<BR><BR>'Nothing short of magical' Chicago Tribune<BR><BR>'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX<BR><BR>'[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world...There's never been anything quite like it' Evening Standard<BR><BR>**Cover may vary**