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Jingo

A Discworld Novel
By Terry Pratchett
Series: City Watch
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Pratchett's writing is a constant delight. No one mixes the fantastical and the mundane to better comic effect or offers sharper insights into the absurdities of human endeavour. --Daily Mail Commander Sam Vimes, the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, and their compatriots must fight for their country (or... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Pratchett's writing is a constant delight. No one mixes the fantastical and the mundane to better comic effect or offers sharper insights into the absurdities of human endeavour. --Daily Mail

Commander Sam Vimes, the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, and their compatriots must fight for their country (or something like that) when Discworld goes to war in this wickedly funny Discworld fantasy comedy from New York Times bestselling author Terry Pratchett.

No one would dream of starting a war without a perfectly good reason... such as a "strategic" piece of old rock in the middle of nowhere known as Leshp. It isn't much of an island that rises up one moonless night from the depths of the Circle Sea—just a few square miles of silt and some old ruins. Unfortunately, this historically disputed lump of earth is once again floating directly between two proud lands, Ankh-Morpork and the city of Al-Khali on the coast of Klatch. In a brilliant display of political satire, that's enough to ignite the inglorious international pastime known as "war".

It is, after all, every citizen's right to bear arms to defend their own. Even if it isn't technically their own. And even if they don't have much in the way of actual weaponry. Pressed into patriotic service, Commander Sam Vimes thinks he should be leading his loyal City Watch—including a female watchdwarf, and lady werewolf—into battle against local malefactors rather than against Klatchians. But war is, after all, simply the greatest of all crimes—and it's Sir Samuel's sworn duty to seek out criminal masterminds wherever they may be hiding... and lock them away.

As two armies march, Vimes faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him... and that's just the people on his side. The enemy might be even worse.

The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Jingo is the 4th book in the City Watch collection and the 21st Discworld book.

The City Watch series in order:

  • Guards! Guards!
  • Men at Arms
  • Feet of Clay
  • Jingo
  • The Fifth Elephant
  • Night Watch
  • Thud!
  • Snuff

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780063374225

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 July 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Collins

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 299g

Pages: 416

Collections

Crime & Thriller Education & Reference Fantasy Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Romantasy (Fantasy Romance) Sci-Fi & Fantasy Series: City Watch Terry Pratchett

About the Author

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) is the acclaimed creator of the globally revered Discworld series. In all, he authored more than fifty bestselling books, which have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.

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