Night Watch

＂Like Tolkien getting mugged in a Moscow back alley by John Le Carre.＂ --Bleeding Cool

The explosive first installment in Serge Lukyanenko’s visionary and internationally bestselling Night Watch series--an inventive blend of atmospheric urban fantasy and riveting spy thriller set in contemporary Moscow

The Night Watch series tells the story of the Others, an ancient race of magicians, shape-shifters, vampires, and other supernatural beings that live among us, and swear allegiance to either the powers of Darkness or the forces of Light. For the past 1000 years, the two sides have been locked in an uneasy truce, keeping their powers in balance as each side secretly plots to take the advantage for themselves. The forces of the Light tasked with keeping the Dark Others in check are the Night Watch.

Night Watch features Anton Gorodetsky, a mid-level Light magician, who during his first field assignment, stumbles upon a cursed young woman--an Other of tremendous potential power who has yet to choose between Light and Darkness. As the two sides prepare for battle, Anton discovers that their destinies are closely intertwined, and the slightest wrong move could cause the destruction of Moscow, or even the world.

作者簡介

盧基揚年科Sergey Lukianenko
　
　　紐約時報讚譽：當今俄羅斯最受歡迎、最有天分的作家！

　 　1968年生於前蘇聯的哈薩克斯坦共和國，畢業於國立阿拉木圖醫學院，當過一年醫師，曾任《世界》科幻雜誌副總編輯。1992年，小說《四十島騎士》廣 獲好評，隔年便轉為專職作家。2002年出版的《雪舞者》獲得俄羅斯國際科幻星橋獎。至今出版小說數十部，擁有二十多個獎項，包括俄國重要的「艾立塔獎」 之「幻想文學發展貢獻獎」史上最年輕的得獎人。

　　「如何在避不掉的邪惡裡展現良善的力量」，一直是他小說的主要課題。恢弘的布局、精采的論辯，以及人性的探討，讓讀者在讚嘆之餘，也能省思小說所帶來的思想衝擊。

　 　風靡全球的「巡者系列小說」，不僅創下驚人銷量，囊括多項科幻大獎，更是奇幻讀者指定必讀的入門作品。2007年作者造訪台灣，掀起東西奇幻文化的對 話，並承諾讓巡者的故事拓展到台灣。《新巡者》是他睽違六年後的最新力作，除了延續善惡對立共存的架構，還在作品中流露為人父的關懷，讓故事進入更為細膩 的層次，令人大呼過癮。

　　Sergei Lukyanenko was born in Kazakhstan and educated as a psychiatrist. He began publishing science fiction in the 1980s and has published more than twenty-five books. He lives in Moscow with his wife and son.