Day Watch (Night Watch, 2) - Softcover

Lukianenko, Sergei; Vasiliev, Vladimir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062310119 ISBN 13: 9780062310118

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2014

Synopsis

Pub Date: 2014-01-21 Pages: 480 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins The second book in the internationally bestselling Night Watch series-the powers of Darkness and the forces of Light grow closer to war.Tor the past one thousand years. the two factions of the Others-an ancient race of magicians. shape-shifters. vampires. and other supernatural beings-have been locked in an uneasy truce as the powers of Darkness and the forces of Light secretly maneuver for the upper hand.Now in the thrilling follow-up to the internationally bestselling Night Watch. we track members of the Dark Others-called the Day Watch and tasked with keeping the Light Others in check-including a young witch who has had the tragic misfortune of falling in love with a Light Other; a powerful warlock struggling to understand his purpose in the war; and a top lieutenant who worries that Zabulon. the l...

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Review:

"Praise for The Night Watch:
This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. A chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world." (Sunday Sport)

"So good that the film feels like a trailer for it" (Time Out)

"JK Rowling, Russian style... Arguably Russia's richest and most famous literary talent of the moment. [a] cracking read, owing more to Rowling or Philip Pullman than it does to the horror genre... Surprisingly readable and addictive... It relies on suspense and psychological drama and a good dose of humour - rather than blood and guts." (Daily Telegraph)

"When a particular kind of story, heavily based in one culture, gets transferred into a culture distinctly different, something magical happens. Something modern, new and distinctly creepy... The magic is rooted in the realities of modern Russia. Inventive, sardonic, and imbued with a surprising the sense that, for this author and his audience, much of this stuff is new-minted." (Independent)

From the Publisher:

The second installment of the phenomenal Night Watch series; vampire novels set in a richly realised post-Soviet Moscow. Reminiscent of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials in its ambitions and achievement, the series has sold for huge advances all over Eu

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0062310119
• ISBN 13: 9780062310118
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464