Basically Life On Mars meets Les Misérables. Except that if he succeeds, he will no longer be able to return to his timeline.
Now he has to stop Carcer, fill his mentor's role in his younger self's life, and protect the citizens of Ankh-Morpork and his fellow Watchmen from the impending war. Vimes soon inadvertently steps into the shoes of his old mentor, John Keel note named for the writer and researcher of The Mothman Prophecies and lands himself right in the middle of the Ankh-Morpork civil war. Vimes has him trapped on the University Library's roof, but when a lightning bolt note the same time altering one from Thief of Time strikes, it causes a freak magical incident that catapults Vimes and Carcer thirty years back in time. The Watch is on the hunt for a serial killer named Carcer, who has murdered Sergeant Stronginthearm. The framing events take place at the same time (such as it is) as the previous novel Thief of Time and also set up events for the following novel Monstrous Regiment. The 27th Discworld novel and the sixth in the Watch theme.
History finds a way? Well, it would have to come up with something good, because it was up against Sam Vimes now." But if the price of that was selling good men to the night, if the price was filling those graves, if the price was not fighting with every trick he knew. He wanted it so much that he trembled at the thought.
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