Thank you, Sir Terry Pratchett, for your amusing books which manage to point out our human foibles so clearly. As the Patrician, Lord Vetinari, points out, the power hungry rarely have a well thought out plan. As he lets himself out of his own dungeon with a key from his concealed storage area, he gets right back to organizing Ankh-Morpork for the better.
Samuel Vimes, the Captain of the Night Watch, is the central character of this volume, but Pratchett gives him plenty of good company: Carrot, the 6 foot 6 inch adoptive son of dwarves; the University Librarian, a powerful Orangutan; Sergeant Colon and guardsman Nobby; and last, but certainly not least, Lady Sybil Ramkin, dragon breeder extraordinaire.
I'm glad to see there are more City Watch books in the offing. I'm taking a pause with Discworld for a while because I want these books to be a pleasure and not a chore. The next volume will be waiting when I feel the need.
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