Night Watch
core novel 1998 The Watch Series
Record
| First published | 1998 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.97 (45,624 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781401359799 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
The novel opens in Moscow, where beneath everyday reality lies the Twilight, a hidden dimension reachable only by supernatural humans called Others. Two rival organizations enforce an ancient truce there: the Night Watch, staffed by Light Others, which monitors the activity of Dark Others, and the Day Watch, which does the reverse. Anton Gorodetsky is a Light magician who has spent his career on quiet technical work within the Night Watch, but at the opening of the book he is pulled into active field duty and sent to track an unregistered vampire loose in the city. That assignment draws him into a wider entanglement involving a young woman named Svetlana, who is unknowingly carrying a powerful curse, and a boy called Egor, whose latent magical potential makes him a prize that both Light and Dark factions want to claim before the other side does.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Watch Series
- Series: The Watch Series core; position 1 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Sergei Lukyanenko
Notes
- From the series record (The Watch Series): Modern-day urban fantasy following supernatural agents of Light and Dark in Moscow; original Russian publication years given.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Watch Series: position 1 of 6: next Day Watch (2000)
Sources
- Night Watch (Lukyanenko novel) encyclopedic entry (general reference encyclopedia)
- New Watch encyclopedic entry (general reference encyclopedia)
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