Capt. Sam Vimes' life in the City Watch is changed forever when a figure from his past returns to Ankh-Morpork.
Using the policing know-how of Constable Carrot, the Watch connects Carcer's evil plan to strange goings-on at the magical institution called Unseen University.
The Watch must rob the city's most secretive and dangerous institution in a desperate effort to find the magical artifact known as Gawain.
Carcer is willing to do anything to find the sword for Gawain; the Watch is close on his tail, following him to Twilight Canyons, a place where the elderly residents await death; death patiently waits for them to draw their last breaths.
The Watch must trek through the Unreal Estate to destroy the sword in a magical lake.
In the race against Carcer for the second mystical artifact, Cheery, Angua and Carrot venture into the Mines of Tak; Cheery must confront the darkness in her past; Vimes and Sybil defend the besieged Watch House from Doctor Cruces and her Assassins.
Richard Dormer
Sam Vimes
Adam Hugill
Carrot
Jo Eaton-Kent
Cheery
Marama Corlett
Angua
Samuel Adewunmi
Carcer Dun
