Guards! Guards!: The Play Av Terry Pratchett

<p><b>The play script adaptation of the classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the first book in the <i>City Watch</i> series, part of the <i>Discworld</i> novels.</b><br><br>''This is <b>one of Pratchett''s best books</b>. Hilarious and highly recommended'' <i>The Times</i><br><br>‘Possibly the<b> funniest book ever written’ </b>5-star reader review<br><br><i>''Noble dragons don''t have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.''</i><br><br><b>The city of Ankh-Morpork is in turmoil, its citizens revolting. Again.</b><br><br>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 ...<br><br>It''s 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.<br><br><b>And if they can''t bring down this fire-breathing tyrant and reinstate their own, slightly less dangerous one, Ankh-Morpork might be lost. For ever...</b><br><br>Guards! Guards!<i> is the first book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.</i><br><br><u>Praise for the <i>Discworld</i> series:</u><br><br>''[Pratchett’s] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series <b>one of the perennial joys of modern fiction''</b> <i>Mail on Sunday</i><br><br>‘Pratchett is <b>a master storyteller</b>’ <i>Guardian</i><br><br><b>''One of our greatest fantasists, </b>and beyond a doubt<b> the funniest'' </b>George R.R. Martin<br><br>''One of those rare writers who<b> appeals to everyone</b>’ <i>Daily Express</i><br><br><b>‘One of the most consistently funny writers </b>around’ Ben Aaronovitch<br><br>‘<b>Masterful and brilliant</b>’ <i>Fantasy & Science Fiction</i><br><br>‘Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own… he <b>is a satirist of enormous talent</b> ... <b>incredibly funny</b> ... <b>compulsively readable''</b> <i>The Times</i><br><br>‘The <b>best humorous English author</b> since P.G. Wodehouse''<i> The Sunday Telegraph</i><br><br>‘Nothing short of <b>magical</b>’ <i>Chicago Tribune</i><br><br>''Consistently <b>funny</b>, consistently <b>clever</b> and consistently <b>surprising</b> in its twists and turns'' <i>SFX</i><br><br>‘[Discworld is] <b>compulsively readable, fantastically inventive</b>, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world…<b>There''s never been anything quite like it</b>’ <i>Evening Standard</i></p>