The Day Watch Paperback by Sergei Lukyanenko
The Day Watch Paperback by Sergei Lukyanenko
Product Details
- Publisher: Anchor Canada (2007-01-30)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 496 pages
- ISBN-13: 9780385663663
- Item Weight: 489.89 grams
- Dimensions: 21.46 x 15.49 x 3.38 cm
The second installment of the phenomenal Russian quartet The Night Watch vampire novels set in a richly realized post-Soviet Moscow.
The second book in the internationally bestselling fantasy series, The Day Watch begins where The Night Watch left off, set in a modern-day Moscow where the 1,000-year-old treaty between Light and Dark maintains its uneasy balance through careful vigilance from the Others. The forces of darkness keep an eye during the day, the Day Watch, while the agents of Light monitor the nighttime. Very senior Others called the Inquisitors are the impartial judges insisting on the essential compact. When a very potent artifact is stolen from them, the consequences are dire and drastic for all sides. The Day Watch introduces the perspective of the Dark Ones, told in part by a young witch who bolsters her evil power by leeching fear from children’s nightmares as a counselor at a girls’ summer camp. When she falls in love with a handsome young Light One, the balance is threatened and a death must be avenged.
The Day Watch is replete with the thrilling action and intricate plotting of the first tale, fuelled by cunning, cruelty, violence, and magic. It is a fast paced, darkly humorous, haunting world that will take root in the shadows of your mind and live there forever.
About the Author
Sergei Lukyanenko was born in Kazakhstan and educated as a psychiatrist.
He began publishing science fiction in the 1980s and is today the most popular science fiction writer in Russia. He is a prolific writer, the author of over 25 books. The first three volumes of the Night Watch Quartet have sold over two million hardcovers between them. Doubleday Canada will publish the third installment in the series, The Twilight Watch in summer 2007 and the fourth, The Last Watch, in 2008. He lives in Moscow.
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