"Pratchett . . . has a satirist's instinct for the absurd and a cartoonist's eye for the telling detail." -- Daily Telegraph (London) "The purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse." -- Washington Post Book World Sam Vimes, watch commander of Ankh-Morpork, is at long last taking a much-needed (and well deserved) vacation. But, of course, this is Discworld(R), where nothing goes as planned--and before Vimes can even change his cardboard-soled...