Sam Vimes

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His Grace, The Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel "Sam" Vimes is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of novels and short stories. He is a major character in six novels and one short story, the first being the 1989 novel Guards! Guards! and the last the 2011 novel Snuff, and makes secondary or minor appearances in a further ten books. Vimes is introduced as the disillusioned captain of the small and ineffectual Night Watch of the Discworld city of Ankh-Morpork, and subsequent appearances chart his slow and often reluctant rise through the ranks of society and his reform of the Watch into a modern and effective police force. Pratchett imagined the character as looking similar to the actor Pete Postlethwaite, and Paul Kidby, who illustrated several of the Discworld novels, gave him a resemblance to Clint Eastwood. The character is one of Pratchett's most popular, and been noted for his "moral pragmatism" and sense of duty and justice. Pratchett's "boots theory of...

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