“Brace yourself for Harry Potter In Gorky Park. .., Marvelous... Bone=chilling.”

“Potent as a shot of vodka... . A compelling urban fantasy.”

Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Each owes allegiance to either the Dark or the Lighe, and they watch each other closely, carefully maintaining the world's precarious balance between good and evil.

In The Day Watch, Alice, a young but powerful Dark Other, joins a missìon to apprehend a renegade Dark witch who has so far eluded those responsible for finding and initiating unlicensed practitioners of magic. It seems a routine operation until they discover that a Night Watch team has already made the arrest. A fierce battle between the two forces’ ensues, and Alice is seriously wounded. She is sent to recuperate at a camp on the Black Sea and there she meets Igor. The chemistry between the two young Others is immediate and irresistible

But Igor is a Light Mage, and in one shattering moment Alice remembers him: Igor was one of the opponents she fought in the bgttle that left her crippled. Once they both know the other's full identity „there is no choice: they must meet again as combatants, in a magical del that nei= ther of them can bear to win.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO was born in Kazakhstan and ‘educated as a psychiatrist. He has published more than 25 books. His Nighe Watch series has sold millions internationally, and The Night Watch has been made into a hugely successful film.

THE DAY WATCH In Russia, the three volumes of the Night Watch trilogy have sold over two million hardcovers between them. The Night Watch has been adapted into an internationally successful film, which has been distributed around the world. Sergei Lukyanenko lives in Moscow.