15 Men at Arms There is almost a perceptible shift in the way the Discworld novels progress from being more character based than story based, this doesn’t mean the stories become any less important and innovative, in fact they mostly get better and better; but the characters do acquire much more depth as the Discworld saga unfolds. Men at Arms gives the reader a wonderful insight into the characters that make up the Ankh-Morpork City Watch; in particular the Night Watch, which is expanded in this story to meet increased workloads. Corporal Carrot, the young six foot high dwarf, is put in charge of new recruits and the city is in the middle of a race war between the trolls and the dwarves, which coincides with a run of unusual murders that appear to have a common connection. Captain Samuel Vimes shines in this book as he tries to hold everything together through extremely difficult times, in which many lives are at stake and an unfortunate secret is uncovered. | | | |
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