it bursts with a sick, carnivorous glee in its fiendish games.", 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., This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. ""Star Wars" meets the Vampires in Moscow.
As the two sides prepare for battle, Anton discovers that their destinies are closely intertwined, and the slightest wrong move could cause the destruction of Moscow, or even the world. Night Watch features Anton Gorodetsky, a mid-level Light magician, who during his first field assignment, stumbles upon a cursed young woman-an Other of tremendous potential power who has yet to choose between Light and Darkness.
The forces of the Light tasked with keeping the Dark Others in check are the Night Watch. For the past 1000 years, the two sides have been locked in an uneasy truce, keeping their powers in balance as each side secretly plots to take the advantage for themselves. With language that throbs like darkly humorous hard-rock lyrics about blood and power, freedom and responsibility, Night Watch is a chilling, cutting-edge thriller, a pulse-pounding ride of fusion fiction that will leave you breathless for the next instalment."Like Tolkien getting mugged in a Moscow back alley by John Le Carre." -Bleeding Cool The explosive first installment in Serge Lukyanenko's visionary and internationally bestselling Night Watch series-an inventive blend of atmospheric urban fantasy and riveting spy thriller set in contemporary Moscow The Night Watch series tells the story of the Others, an ancient race of magicians, shape-shifters, vampires, and other supernatural beings that live among us, and swear allegiance to either the powers of Darkness or the forces of Light. 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. 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.
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