A seventy-foot fire-breathing dragon is wanted to help with enquiries into the identity of the night-time prowler who is turning the citizens of Ankh-Morpork into something resembling small charcoal biscuits, and the only thing that can prevent the inevitable destruction of the city are the drunken and world-weary Captain Vimes and his forgotten police force - an overweight and cowardly sergeant, a corporal who just about qualifies as human, and the Discworld's tallest dwarf...
'Guards! Guards!' has been astutely reduced from Terry Pratchett's best-selling novel so it will fit into those nice little speech bubbles by Stephen Briggs and illustrated by Graham Higgins to make pages look more interesting.