When a mid-level Night Watch agent named Anton stumbles upon a cursed young woman – an uninitiated Other with magnificent potential – both sides prepare for a battle that could lay waste to the entire city, possible the world. For a thousand years both sides have maintained a precarious balance of power, but an ancient prophecy has decreed that a supreme Other will one day emerge, threatening to tip the scales. The agents of the Dark – the Night Watch – oversee nocturnal activity, while the agents of the Light keep watch over the day. This epic saga chronicles the eternal war of the “Others,” an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who must swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light. When a young boy with extraordinary powers emerges, fulfilling the first half of the prophecy, will the forces of the Light be able to keep the Dark from corrupting the boy and destroying the world?Īn extraordinary translation from the Russian by noted translator Andrew Bromfield, this first English language edition of Night Watch is a chilling, engrossing read certain to reward those waiting in anticipation of its arrival.Set in contemporary Moscow, where shape shifters, vampires, and street-sorcerers linger in the shadows, Night Watch is the first book of the hyper-imaginative fantasy pentalogy from best-selling Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko. But an ancient prophecy decrees that one supreme 'Other' will rise up and tip the balance, plunging the world into a catastrophic war between the Dark and the Light.

A thousand-year treaty has maintained the balance of power, and the two sides coexist in an uneasy truce. Living among us are the 'Others,' an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light.

Set in modern day Moscow, Night Watch is a world as elaborate and imaginative as Tolkien or the best Asimov. Interest in the books here is now set to reach a fever pitch. In 2005 Fox Searchlight announced it had acquired the Russian film adaptation for an American release. The Night Watch series has caused a sensation never before seen in Russia - its popularity is frenzied and unprecedented, and driven by a truly great, epic story.

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