The Night Watch

This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world … a chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one’s been selling like hot cakes around the world

* Sunday Sport *
So good that the film feels like a trailer for it * Time Out *
JK Rowling, Russian style … arguably Russia’s richest and most famous literary talent of the moment … [a] cracking read, owing more to Rowling or Philip Pullman than it does to the horror genre … surprisingly readable and addictive…it relies on suspense and psychological drama and a good dose of humour - rather than blood and guts * Daily Telegraph *
When a particular kind of story, heavily based in one culture, gets transferred into a culture distinctly different, something magical happens … Something modern, new and distinctly creepy … continues to work because the magic is rooted in the realities of modern Russia … Inventive, sardonic, and imbued with a surprising the sense that, for this author and his audience, much of this stuff is new-minted * Independent *
Night Watch is an epic of extraordinary power – Quentin Tarantino
Star Wars meets the Vampires in Moscow … it bursts with a sick, carnivorous glee in its fiendish games * The New York Times *
[A] sceptical, intelligent thriller * The Telegraph *
Fascinating … [The] excellent translation by Andrew Bromfield keeps the pace moving … One of the most original and readable supernatural fictions in some time * Scotland on Sunday *
Brace yourself for Harry Potter in Gorky Park … The novel contains some captivating scenes and all kinds of marvelous, inventive detail: The vampires’ seduction of a teenage boy is bone-chilling; every time Lukyanenko described the Other-worldly Twilight, I felt lured into it; and the fantastical powers exercised by Anton and his colleagues range from delightful to awesome – Ron Charles * The Washington Post Book World *
Lukyanenko is great at rolling out new concepts for the reader to savour * The Sydney Morning Herald *