Sergej Lukjaněnko Libri

Dopo millenni di lotta senza vincitori né vinti, le forze delle Tenebre e quelle della Luce decisero di stringere un patto che le avrebbe obbligate a non prevalere mai l'una sull'altra. Custodi di questa tregua sarebbero stati gli altri: streghe, maghi, mutantropi, demoni e vampiri, votati a sorvegliare la notte se appartenenti alla Luce, o il giorno, se adepti delle Tenebre. Gli altri sono gli unici che possono entrare nel crepuscolo, un limbo da cui traggono poteri soprannaturali, in cui guardiani della notte e del giorno possono incontrarsi. Il guardiano Anton, un mago della Luce, questa volta deve indagare sulla morte di un ragazzo russo trovato ucciso e dissanguato nei Sotterranei della Scozia, una casa degli orrori a Edimburgo. Tutto porta a credere che sia opera di un vampiro. Ma perché allora l'assassino non ha bevuto nemmeno una goccia di sangue della sua vittima?

La notte di Mosca è cupa e pericolosa, non solo per i criminali che si aggirano in cerca di vittime. Vampiri, stregoni, animali magici e altre creature misteriose si mescolano agli esseri umani. Solo Anton e gli altri guardiani possono riconoscerli: il loro compito è quello di far rispettare la tregua tra Bene e Male, che impegna le forze della Luce e quelle delle Tenebre a vegliare l’una sull’altra, perché nessuna prevalga. Ma qualcosa nella pace millenaria che divide il popolo notturno da quello del giorno sta cambiando e il destino dell’umanità è legato a quello di un ragazzo che non sa di possedere un enorme potere. Un ragazzo che sia le forze della Luce che quelle delle Tenebre vogliono arruolare nella propria fazione. Comincia così una lotta sfrenata per la sopravvivenza dell’umanità, tra cellulari costosi e corvi parlanti, mafia russa e minacce apocalittiche, vodka e sortilegi.

Walking the streets of our cities are the Others. These men and women are guardians of the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world that exists alongside our own. Each has sworn allegiance to one side, fighting for the Light, or the Darkness. But now, beyond the continuing struggle comes a peril that threatens their very world...At Moscow airport, Higher Light Magician Anton Gorodetsky overhears a child screaming that a plane is about to crash. He discovers that the child is a prophet: an Other with the gift of foretelling the future. When the catastrophe is averted, Gorodetsky senses a disruption in the natural order, one that is confirmed by the arrival of a dark and terrifying predator. From the Night Watch headquarters Gorodetsky travels to London, to Taiwan and across Russia in search of clues, unearthing as he goes a series of increasingly cataclysmic prophecies. He soon realises that what is at stake is the existence of the Twilight itself - and that only he will be able to save it.

Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. Three years have passed since the events of The Day Watch.

A new and terrifying threat emerges, putting the delicate balance of the Twilight world at risk. As characters confront this looming danger, they must navigate shifting alliances and face their deepest fears. The story explores themes of courage, sacrifice, and the struggle between light and darkness, drawing readers into a gripping narrative filled with suspense and emotional depth.

The story follows Alice, a formidable Dark Other, as she embarks on a seemingly routine mission with the Day Watch to capture an uninitiated Other. However, the situation escalates when they discover that the Night Watch has already apprehended their target. This leads to a fierce confrontation, putting Alice's life at risk and challenging her abilities in a world where the balance between light and dark forces is constantly in flux.

Others. They walk among us. Observing. Set in contemporary Moscow, where shape shifters, vampires, and street-sorcerers linger in the shadows, Night Watch is the first book of the hyper-imaginative fantasy pentalogy from best-selling Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko. This epic saga chronicles the eternal war of the “Others,” an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who must swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light. The agents of the Dark – the Night Watch – oversee nocturnal activity, while the agents of the Light keep watch over the day. For a thousand years both sides have maintained a precarious balance of power, but an ancient prophecy has decreed that a supreme Other will one day emerge, threatening to tip the scales. Now, that day has arrived. When a mid-level Night Watch agent named Anton stumbles upon a cursed young woman – an uninitiated Other with magnificent potential – both sides prepare for a battle that could lay waste to the entire city, possible the world. With language that throbs like darkly humorous hard-rock lyrics about blood and power, freedom and responsibility, Night Watch is a chilling, cutting-edge thriller, a pulse-pounding ride of fusion fiction that will leave you breathless for the next instalment.

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 leader of the Day Watch, is planning to betray him. Meanwhile, a forbidden artifact with the ability to bring the most dangerous Dark magician in history back to life has gone missing. As the inevitable war between the forces of Darkness and Light threatens to destroy modern-day Moscow, it becomes clear that good and evil are only a matter of perspective.

The newest instalment in the phenomenal Night Watch series. The streets of Moscow aren't safe. Vampires are attacking innocent people, and the names of the victims are spelling out a message: ANTON GORODETSKY. Higher Light Magician Anton is one of the Others, possessed of magical powers and able to enter the Twilight, a shadowy world parallel to our own. Each Other must swear allegiance to one side: either the Light, or the Dark. But who is after Anton and what do they want? Anton's investigation leads him to a Prophet, an Other with the gift of seeing the future. Her horrifying vision heralds the end of all life at the hands of an ancient threat - unless Anton can reunite a mysterious organisation known only as the Sixth Watch, before it's too late.

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.