<p>The second book in the internationally bestselling Night Watch series - the powers of Darkness and the forces of Light grow closer to war.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>
