These rules were agreed upon by both the Light and the Dark after the last great magical war which neither side could win.

The activities of the Others go largely unnoticed by the general population due to the strict set of rules that govern their behaviour. Some beings such as vampires are naturally Dark but sorceresses and magicians have the choice of which side they will fall on, although it is often just down to fate - how they feel on a particular day, to which side they will choose. The Others can either be Dark, and do evil deeds or they can be Light, and pursue a selfless existence causing no harm to humans or Others. The humans are none the wiser that they are surrounded by the Others they can live and die without ever realising that they have been blessed or cursed by an Other. Imagine a world where vampires, shape-shifters, werewolves, healers and magicians live side-by-side with humanity. 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'.Note: This novel is titled “The Night Watch” for the UK market and “Nightwatch” for the US market. 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. 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, too young to have committed to either The Dark or The Light and as yet unaware of his own enormous power, whom Anton narrowly saves from vampires.Īnton is assigned a partner, Olga, a powerful female Other who is in the form of an owl in punishment for a past error of judgement. Despite their leanings towards good and evil, their aim is not mutual destruction, but rather the maintenance of the precarious balance between the two.Īnton, a young Other, who owes allegiance to the Light, is a Night Watch agent, patrolling the streets and Metro of the city, as he protects ordinary people from the vampires and magicians of the Dark.

The two factions, having long before realise that an open struggle can only create chaos and disaster, coexist in an uneasy truce, each side aware of, and keeping a close eye on, the other's activities around the city. 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 Other. All that stands between the darkness and the light is The Night Watch.

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