Incarcerated in a cell next to his is Carcer, who after being released joins the Cable Street Particulars (otherwise known as the Unmentionables), the secret police carrying out the paranoid whims of the Patrician of the time, Homicidal Lord Winder. 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.

He awakens to find that he has somehow been sent back in time. 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 - whose wife is in labour with their first child - is caught in a storm while pursuing Carcer, a notorious criminal who has murdered several watchmen, to the roof of the Unseen University's Library. Night Watch placed second in the annual Locus Poll for best fantasy novel. A five-part radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

The protagonist of the novel is Sir Samuel Vimes, commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch.

Night Watch is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 29th book in his Discworld series, and the sixth starring the City Watch, published in 2002. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Download terry pratchett books in order