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The Night Watch

3.98 ( 40,579 Ratings by Goodreads)
The Night Watch

The Night Watch

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Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. The Others are magicians, possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own. Each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. The two factions, having long before realised that open struggle can only create chaos and disaster, coexist in an uneasy truce, each keeping a close eye on, the other's activities around the city. Their aim is not mutual destruction, but rather the maintenance of the precarious balance between good and evil. Anton, a young Other who owes allegiance to the Light, is a Night Watch agent, newly seconded to patrol the streets and metro of the city, to protect ordinary people from the vampires and magicians of the Dark. On his rounds, Anton comes across a young woman, Svetlana, who he realises is under a powerful curse that threatens the entire city, and a boy, Egor, a young Other, as yet unaware of his own power, whom Anton narrowly saves from vampires. Anton is assigned a partner, Olga, a powerful female Other who is trapped in the form of an owl in punishment for a past error of judgement. Together with their colleagues in the Night Watch, they struggle to remove Svetlana's curse and to protect Egor from the vampires that pursue him...Set in a vividly-realised post-Soviet Russia, where vampires operate under license and Good and Evil exist in a Cold War-like balance of power, "The Night Watch" is a page-turning fantasy thriller, an international bestseller that represents the most original writing in its genre since Anne Rice's "An Interview With A Vampire".
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780434014125
ISBN10 0434014125
Number Of Pages 496
Item Weight 649 g
Product Dimensions 32 x 229 x 152 mm
Publisher / Reseller William Heinemann Ltd
Format paperback
Edition First Thus
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Night Watch is an epic of extraordinary power. --Quentin Tarantino Star Wars meets the Vampires in Moscow . . . it bursts with a sick, carnivorous glee in its fiendish games. -- The New York Times The Night Watch is inventive, sardonic and imbued with a surprising sense that, for this author and his audience, much of this stuff is new-minted. -- The Independent (UK) A sceptical, intelligent thriller. - Telegraph (UK) Fascinating. . . . [The] excellent translation by Andrew Bromfield keeps the pace moving. . . . One of the most original and readable supernatural fictions in some time. - Scotland on Sunday Brace yourself for Harry Potter in Gorky Park. . . . The novel contains some captivating scenes and all kinds of marvelous, inventive detail: The vampires' seduction of a teenage boy is bone-chilling; every time Lukyanenko described the Other-worldly Twilight, I felt lured into it; and the fantastical powers exercised by Anton and his colleagues range from delightful to awesome. - Ron Charles, The Washington Post Book World Lukyanenko is great at rolling out new concepts for the reader to savour. - The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) [As] potent as a shot of vodka. . . . [A] compelling urban fantasy. - Publishers Weekly (starred review) This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. A chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world. -- Sunday Sport

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Author's Bio

Sergei Lukyanenko is a prolific writer, author of over 25 books. The three volumes of the Night Watch Trilogy have sold over two million hardcovers between them. Night Watch has been adapted into a hugely successful film, which outgrossed The Return of the King and the latest Harry Potter in Russia, and has been distributed round the world. The Hollywood remake should be even bigger.

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