Night Watch (Watch #1)
Night Watch (Watch #1)
Author: Sergei Lukyanenko
Desc: Others. They walk among us. Observing. 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. 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. The agents of the Dark – the Night Watch – oversee nocturnal activity while the agents of the Light keep watch over the day. 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. Now that day has arrived. 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. 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.