Men At Arms Playtext

<p><b>The play script adaptation of the classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the second book in the <i>City Watch</i> series, part of the <i>Discworld</i> novels.</b><br><br><b>''Funny</b>, <b>wise</b> and <b>mock heroic</b> . . . the best-crafted book I have read all year'' <i>Sunday Express</i><br><br>‘Pratchett <b>at his best</b>’ 5-star reader review<br><br><i>''People ought to think for themselves ... The problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to.''</i><br><br><b>Times are a-changing in Ankh-Morpork''s Night Watch.</b><br><br>New recruits have been hired to reflect the city''s diversity, including Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), and Lance-constable Angua (a woman ... full moons aside).<br><br>What''s more, Captain Sam Vimes is getting married and retiring from the Watch. For good. Which is a shame, because no one knows the streets of Ankh-Morpork or its criminal underworld better than him.<br><br>And someone armed and dangerous has been getting ideas about power and destiny and lost kings, committing a string of seemingly random murders across the city.<br><br><b>The new recruits will need to learn fast ...</b><br><br>Men At Arms<i> is the second 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>