Hardcover, 373 pages
English language
Published Nov. 10, 2005 by HarperCollins.
Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago.
But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office.
With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him.
Oh . . . and at six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read 'Where's My Cow?', with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy.
There are some things you have to do.
Hey, it turns out that Sam Vimes is as aggressive about being a good father as he is about being a good commander of the City Watch! I was downright shocked to read that. And I was so shocked that I continued to inhale the darn thing over the course of three days.
