I'm never sure, reading Discworld, if it's the Witches or the City Watch stories that are my favourites. I think it depends on which Pratchett book I've just read, so right now the City Watch is slightly ahead. I love Vimes, and I love Carrot - and I love the little hints, here and there, that Carrot is a solid gold genius of a manipulative bastard, using innocence and good humour to bend the world around him. I'm sure he doesn't even crack a smile at the thought of Vimes in the ducal garters he's manoeuvred him into...

All the while Vimes is trying to stop a war that lesser people are trying to start - but there's an awful lot of lesser people, and together they look like a mob. This doesn't bode well for his peacekeeping efforts. I enjoy politics in my fiction, especially political viewpoints that I tend to share, and the anti-war message here is right on target. These parts of Jingo are admittedly a little too obvious, but it's an enjoyable read regardless.