(Description from the back cover of trade paperback edition) It is a fast-paced, darkly humorous, haunting world that will take root in the shadows of your mind and live there forever. Replete with the thrilling action and intricate plotting of the first tale, Day Watch is fuelled by cunning, cruelty, violence, and magic. When she falls in love with a handsome young Light One, the balance is threatened and a death must be avenged.

For a thousand years a treaty between the two sides has maintained an uneasy balance, but when a very potent artifact is stolen from the inquisition - an impartial group of Others who keep watch over all - the consequences are dire for both sides.ĭay Watch introduces the perspective of the Dark Ones, as it is told in part by a beautiful but troubled young witch.

The agents of Dark - The Day Watch - keep an eye during the day, while the agents of Light keep watch over the night. Set in a modern-day Moscow, the 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. So the Inquisition has ordered the Night Watch to cooperate with the Day Watch and unmask the culprit.The second in a blockbuster series of novels from Russia's most popular science fiction author, Day Watch brings us back into the hyperimaginative world of Sergei Lukyanenko and continues the dramatic battle between good and evil, light and dark, day and night. Even more worryingly, the note has been sent to Zebulon and to the Inquisition s offices in Berne and only the highest-level mages and sorcerers know the address. esar has received an anonymous note, stating that an Other has revealed the full truth about their kind to a human, and now intends to do the impossible- convert that human into an Other. With mother and daughter spending the summer on a dacha not far from Moscow, Anton is working on uneventfully, dreaming of a holiday, when his boss Gesar asks him in for a private meeting. Svetlana has left the Night Watch to raise her and Anton s daughter Nadya, now a precocious two-year-old. hree years have passed since the events of The Day Watch. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light.

Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others.

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