When I grow up I want to write like Terry Pratchett! From Colon’s paranoia at the watch house, to Carrot’s carefully worded statements to Vimes regarding Angua and Gavin, to Lady Sybil’s frustration at not being able to talk to her husband, Pratchett does not put a foot wrong. This is one of those books where I was sorry to reach the end. Nuanced humour, and a great plot move the reader along quickly. Each character has been finely tuned, and display all their special talents in this book. Terry Pratchett has created a masterpiece with this cleverly written novel. Carrot soon follows leaving Colon in charge of the Watch. But he leaves the city in the capable hands of Carrot and ventures out into unknown territory. He is happy to be a copper, but when Lady Sybil packs his Duke costume he knows all hope is lost. Vimes is instructed, in no uncertain terms that he has to go to Uberwald as the official diplomat from Ankh-Morpork. Down boy – good dog! Well, it turns out Angua has several siblings and one of them has been a very bad dog indeed!
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