"`Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City watch needs MEN!'

But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman ... most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving).

And they need all the help they can get. Because they've only got twenty-four hours to clean up the town and this is Ankh-Morpork we're talking about....."

I took a while but the Watch finally got their second book with "Men at Arms". The Watch is a bit bigger here than it was in "Guards!Guards!". We also see Gaspode the Wonder Dog back again after "Moving Pictures". "Men At Arms" is the first discworld book with a mystery and many people say this is one of the best books in the series.

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