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There are no cliffhangers, big bad or overarching plot to the series, so they're all more or less stand alone. Some share characters, so there's some benefit to reading them in order, but it's not essential. Guards! Guards! is the first book featuring the city watch, and makes a great starting point.
Macbeth enters and Lady Macbeth fears a bell which has sounded (Line 4) may have awakened the two guards without the murder having taken place. We learn that Lady Macbeth was to have killed the King but the King's resemblance to her father stopped her.
Lady Macbeth shares her plan to kill King Duncan that night. She will drug the guards outside the king’s room and when they are asleep Macbeth can kill the king.
When the lords go to arrest Duncan’s guards, they discover that Macbeth has killed them. He says it’s because he was so angry with them for murdering Duncan, but it looks really suspicious.
They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is identical: it is, round about Chapter Three (or ten minutes into the film) to rush into the room, attack the hero one at a time , and be slaughtered.
Aug 1, 1989 · A fun and highly intelligent fantasy set in the ancient and degraded city of Ankh-Morpork following the daring investigations of the most unlikely city guards in literature. Prepare to breathe fog while avoiding being roasted by the chemical jaws of a dragon wandering around the city seeking revenge.
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Terry Pratchett's work is full of references, allusions, parodies and in-jokes. Hundreds of such references have been collected in the Annotated Pratchett File (APF). This page is part of the on-line version of the APF and contains all the annotations for the book "Guards! Guards!".
