    night watch is the 29th novel in terry pratchett's discworld series, published in 2002. the protagonist of the novel is sir samuel vimes, commander of the ankh-morpork city watch. a five-part radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on bbc radio 4 from february 27, 2008 that featured philip jackson as sam vimes and carl prekopp as young sam. the cover illustration of the british edition, by paul kidby, is a parody of rembrandt's painting night watch. this is the first main-sequence discworld novel not to have a cover by josh kirby. kidby pays tribute to the late artist by placing him in the picture, in the position where rembrandt is said to have painted himself. the actual painting by rembrandt is used as the back cover illustration. night watch placed second in the annual locus poll for best fantasy novel.locus index to sf awards ==plot summary== 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 is caught in a magical storm while pursuing carcer dun, a notorious criminal. he awakens to find that he has been rescued by miss palm (whom vimes knows in the future as mrs palm, head of the guild of seamstresses â seamstresses referring to prostitutes). he determines that he has somehow been sent back in time. vimes's first idea is to ask the wizards at the unseen university to send him home, but before he can act on this, he is arrested for breaking curfew by a younger version of himself. incarcerated in a cell next to his is carcer, who after being released joins the unmentionables, the secret police carrying out the paranoid whims of the patrician of the time, lord winder. when he is taken to be i
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