The Night Watch
(Sergei Lukyanenko)
If you think you've got problems, a nagging spouse, boss giving you a hard time, difficulty paying the rent and all the rest of it that comes with living in the modern world, then just spare a thought for poor Anton Gorodetsky, the hapless narrator of Sergei Lukyanenko's modern-day masterpiece, The Night Watch.
For those of you thoroughly bored by the standard fare being offered by Western writers of modern-day fantasy, but who are still looking for that something different Lukyanenko is the author that you have been waiting for. He weaves a tale in modern day Moscow that is both refreshing and exciting for western and non-western readers alike.
In the Night Watch, Anton Gorodetsky is a member of an agency dedicated to providing security during the small hours of the night from the Dark Ones. Hence the name, The Night Watch (that being the name of the agency). There exists in the novel, a Treaty between the forces of Light and Dark, a treaty not unlike the situation that existed in Cold War Russia or the pact made between Stalin and Hitler during the Second world War.
It is an uneasy truce between the two sides and in this complex game of good and evil, both sides are willing to sacrifice pawns in their "Great Game". Anton Gorodetsky, is just one of those pawns. In between trying to disarm a thirty meter tall vortex capable of destroying entire cities and ending millions of lives, saving a boy from bloodthirsty vampires, inhabiting the body of a female colleague and occasionally running for his life, Anton must not only do battle with the forces of the Dark (a feat made infinitely more difficult by the Treaty), he must also sort out his love life and find his place in what is a complex, deadly and dangerous world. As a reader you will thoroughly enjoy the journey he embarks upon, to say nothing of the spine-chilling world that Lukyanenko creates in this page-turner that once you start reading you'll never be able to put down until you finish, I should know, I couldn't.
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