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 Other owes allegiance either to theDark or the Light.

The Night Watch, first book in the Night Watch Trilogy, followsAnton, a young Otherowing allegiance to the Light. As a NightWatch agent he must patrol the streets and metro of the city,protecting ordinary people from the vampires and magicians of theDark. When he comes across Svetlana, a young woman under apowerful curse, and saves an unfledged Other, Egor, from vampires,he becomes involved in events that threaten the uneasy truce,and the whole city...