Vimes goes to Uberwald, home of dwarves and werewolves and vampires, where a new king is about to be crowned, which is somehow connected to a theft and murder back at Ankh Morpork. Vimes teeters on the brink of being overburdened with moral authority in this one, always a risk with a recurring character who has gone from struggling to do the right thing to having succesfully imposed a functioning version of the right thing on everyone around him. Still, beng hunted naked through the snow by Angua's werewolf family keeps him humble. Makes me realise the sheer genius of the introduction of young Sam and Where's My Cow in Thud - keeps Vimes properly grounded.