Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett the first book in the City Watch series part of the Discworld novels.This is one of Pratchetts best books. Hilarious and highly recommended The TimesPossibly the funniest book ever written 5star reader reviewNoble dragons dont have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.The city of AnkhMorpork is in turmoil its citizens revolting. Again.A shadowy secret brotherhood has summoned a dragon to spread terror throughout the city intent on overthrowing the Patrician and ruling in his place. Too bad the dragon has ideas of its own ...Its up to Captain Sam Vimes and the ramshackle Night Watch to stop it. Only problem is the Watch are more used to dealing with mobs than dragons.And if they cant bring down this firebreathing tyrant and reinstate their own slightly less dangerous one AnkhMorpork might be lost. For ever...Guards Guards is the first book in the City Watch series but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.Praise for the Discworld seriesPratchetts spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction Mail on SundayPratchett is a master storyteller GuardianOne of our greatest fantasists and beyond a doubt the funniest George R.R. MartinOne of those rare writers who appeals to everyone Daily ExpressOne of the most consistently funny writers around Ben AaronovitchMasterful and brilliant Fantasy amp Science FictionPratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own... he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable The TimesThe best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse The Sunday TelegraphNothing short of magical Chicago TribuneConsistently funny consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns SFXDiscworld is compulsively readable fantastically inventive surprisingly serious exploration in story for