The rest of his force is incompetent (Sergeant Colon), corrupt (Corporal Nobby) or so shiny and new they don’t even know what a brothel is (the excellently named Carrot).
He comes from a poor background, an ex-gang member, spurned by a woman and generally down on his luck. When we meet him for the first time, he is an alcoholic, tortured cop stereotype. Revisiting him here is so far the best fun I have had in this re-reading project so far. I’ve never been back to the start of his journey, to see who he was before I knew the character would mean so much to me. I’m telling you this because I just feel you should all know how serious I am when I say that I love Sam Vimes. It is with great excitement that I sit down to think about Guards! Guards!, because this book marks the first appearance of Samuel Vimes, who is not only my all-time favourite Discworld character, but who is also perhaps my most favourite literary character of all time.
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