Night Watch

Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching ...Helen, clever, sweet, much-loved, harbours a painful secret ...Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal, to her soldier lover ...Duncan, an apparent innocent, has had his own demons to fight during the war. Their lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances ...Tender, tragic and beautifully poignant, set against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic and ordinary, here is a novel of relationships that offers up subtle surprises and twists. T...

Set in contemporary Moscow, Night Watch revolves around the conflict and balance maintained between the forces of light and darkness the result of a medieval truce between the opposing sides. As night falls the dark Others witches vampires and sorcerers battle their Light Others of the Night Watch whose mission is to patrol and protect this balance. But there is a constant fear that an ancient prophecy will come true that a powerful Other will rise up choose one of the sides and tip the balance plunging...

World has always been divided into two sides black and white, day and night, Light and Darkness. An ancient agreement guards the balance between Light and Darkness. But there should be someone to guard the Agreement. There are people among us who look usual but who are different they call themselves Others. They can enter the magic layer of reality Dusk, feel the magic power and use it for their different magic abilities. From the very beginning of our days Others took a side to serve to and to...

Set in contempory Moscow, NIGHT WATCH revolves around the confilct and balance maintained between the forces of light and darkness - the result of a medieval truce between the opposing sides. As night falls, the Dark "Others" - witches, vampires, and sorcerers, battle the Light - "Others" of the Night Watch whose mission is to patrol and protect this balance. But, there is a constant fear that an ancient prophecy will come true: that a powerful "Other" will rise up, choose one of the sides, and tip...

Sarah Waters, the award-winning author of three novels set in Victorian London, returns with a stunning novel that marks a departure from the 19th century. Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners—three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who...

Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit...

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Set in contempory Moscow, NIGHT WATCH revolves around the confilct and balance maintained between the forces of light and darkness – the result of a medieval truce between the opposing sides. As night falls, the Dark “Others” – witches, vampires, and sorcerers, battle the Light –“Others” of the Night Watch whose mission is to patrol and protect this balance. But, there is a constant fear that an ancient prophecy will come true: that a powerful “Other” will rise up, choose one of the sides, and tip...

NIGHT WATCH: Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them...

The forces of light and darkness have co-existed in a delicate balance for hundreds of years…until now. Even as the Night Watch polices the Dark Others – among them vampires, witches and shape-shifters – a chain of mysterious events triggers a dreaded, age-old prophecy: An immortal with special powers will come to switch sides, shattering the balance and unleashing an apocalyptic war unlike any the world has ever known!Only one thing stands between peace and Armageddon: the supernatural agents of...

Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit...

Set in contemporary Moscow, Night Watch revolves around the conflict and balance maintained between the forces of light and darkness the result of a medieval truce between the opposing sides. As night falls the dark Others witches vampires and sorcerers battle their Light Others of the Night Watch whose mission is to patrol and protect this balance. But there is a constant fear that an ancient prophecy will come true that a powerful Other will rise up choose one of the sides and tip the balance plunging...

Set during the air raids, blacked-out streets, and sexual adventure of World War II London, "The Night Watch" is "the finest achievement yet" ("Guardian") from the bestselling author of "Fingersmith" and "Tipping the Velvet."

NIGHT WATCH: Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them...