Thud!: A Discworld Novel

City Watch Commander Sam Vimes must solve the murder of a prominent dwarf to prevent Discworld from descending into bloody civil war. The killing occurs amid escalating tensions between trolls and dwarfs—a conflict rooted in the ancient battle of Koom Valley centuries earlier. The dwarf victim, Grag Hamcrusher, had been stirring unrest in Ankh-Morpork before being found bashed to death with a troll club nearby. Vimes must navigate a labyrinthine mine network being secretly excavated beneath the city streets, where more than one corpse awaits discovery. As war drums sound louder, he pursues every clue and confronts assassins and darkness itself, descending into superstition, hatred, and fear—possibly all the way to Koom Valley. Yet each day at six o'clock, Vimes returns home to read Where's My Cow? with farmyard noises to his young son, because some things must be done. Thud! is the 7th book in the City Watch series and the 34th Discworld novel. The series can be read in any order.