num_pages: 338
description: This morning, Commander Vimes of the City Watch had it all. He was a Duke. He was rich. He was respected. He had a silver cigar case. He was about to become a father.This morning he thought longingly about the good old days.Tonight, he's in them.Flung back in time by a mysterious accident, Sam Vimes has to start all over again. He must get a new name and a job, and there's only one job he's good at: cop in the Watch. He must track down a brutal murderer. He must find his younger self and teach him everything he knows. He must whip the cowardly, despised Night Watch into a crack fighting force -- fast. Because Sam Vimes knows what's going to happen. He remembers it. He was there. It's part of history. And you can't change history . . .But Sam is going to. He has no choice. Otherwise, a bloody revolution will start, and good men will die. Sam saw their names on old headstones just this morning -- but tonight they're young men who think they have a future. And rather than let them die, Sam will do anything -- turn traitor, burn buildings, take over a revolt, anything -- to snatch them from the jaws of history. He will do it even if victory will mean giving up the only future he knows.For if he succeeds, he's got no wife, no child, no riches, no fame -- all that will simply vanish. But if he doesn't try, he wouldn't be Sam Vimes.And so the battle is on. He knows how it's going to end; after all, he was there. His name is on one of those headstones. But that's just a minor detail . . .
language: English
title: Night Watch
titlecomplete: Night Watch (Discworld, #29)
characters: Lu-Tze, Sam Vimes, Reg Shoe, Monks of History, Lord Downey, Cheery Littlebottom, DEATH, Young Sam Vimes, Nobby Nobbs, Havelock Vetinari, Carrot Ironfoundersson, John Keel, Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler, Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Ramkin, Fred Colon, Detritus, Buggy Swires
genres: Fiction, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Time Travel, High Fantasy, Comedy, Fantasy, Novels, Audiobook
ratings_count: 108531
places: Ankh-Morpork, Discworld
series: Discworld - Ankh-Morpork City Watch, Discworld, Kolekcja Świat Dysku
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Prometheus Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Tähtifantasia Award
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers