ISBN Men At Arms book English Paperback 432 pages

Second book of the original and best CITY WATCH series, now reinterpreted in BBC's The Watch
'Funny, wise and mock heroic . . . The funniest and best crafted book I have read all year'Sunday Express
The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .__________________'What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work's already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place.'
The
City Watch
needs MEN! But what it'sgotincludes
Corporal Carrot
(technically a dwarf),
Lance-constable Cuddy
(really a dwarf),
Lance-constable Detritus
(a troll),
Lance-constable Angua
(a woman... most of the time) and
Corporal Nobbs
(disqualified from the human race for shoving).
And they need all the help they can get, because someone in
Ankh-Morpork
has been getting dangerous ideas - about crowns and legendary swords, anddestiny.
And the problem with destiny is, of course, that she is not always careful where she points her finger. One minute you might be minding your own business on a normal if not spectacular career path, the next you might be in the frame for the big job, like saving the world . . .