'PEOPLE OUGHT TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES ... THE PROBLEM IS PEOPLE ONLY THINK FOR THEMSELVES IF YOU TELL THEM TO.'

Times are a-changing in Ankh-Morpork's Night Watch.

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).

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.

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.

The new recruits will need to learn fast ...

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