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Night Watch (HALLOWEEN EDITION - PURPLE STAMP)


Price: £14.99 / $22.49

Format: First Edition UK Hardback
Signed: Yes
Publisher: William Heinnemann
ISBN: 0434014125
In stock: 1

First edition, first impression of the UK Hardback.

This copy is one of the signed first edition "Halloween Editions" which bear a scarey vampire bat ink stamp alongisde the authors signature. A very limited number are stamped with this logo. (Of which 100 have been numbered out of 100)

First in a trilogy, this book is a must read for any fans of anything gothic or vampire. I absolutely loved it, and can't wait for the next installment. The book was released in Russia in 2005 and has already sold over 1 Million hardbacks, and has become a huge cult novel. It has also been converted into film in Russian, and is currently being filmed in English.

The author briefly visited the UK from his Moscow at the time of publication, and whilst here signed a very small number of what is already a tiny print run in hardback.

The following link gives you a flavour of just how big and how spectacular this book and film is.

http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/nwnd/

"Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are The Others. The Others are magicians, 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 the Dark or the Light. The two factions, having long before realised that open struggle can only create chaos and disaster, coexist in an uneasy truce, each side aware of, and keeping a close eye on, the other's activities around the city. Their aim is not mutual destruction, but rather the maintenance of the precarious balance between good and evil. Anton, a young Other, who owes allegiance to the Light, is a Night Watch agent, newly seconded to patrol the streets and metro of the city, to protect ordinary people from the vampires and magicians of the Dark. On his rounds, Anton comes across a young woman, Svetlana, who he realises is under a powerful curse that threatens the entire city, and a boy, Egor, a young Other, as yet unaware of his own enormous power, whom Anton narrowly saves from vampires. Anton is assigned a partner, Olga, a powerful female Other who is trapped in the form of an owl in punishment for a past error of judgement. Together with their colleagues in the Night Watch, they struggle to remove Svetlana's curse and to protect Egor from the vampires that pursue him. Set in a vividly realised post-Soviet Russia, where vampires operate under license and Good and Evil exist in a Cold War-like balance of power, "The Night Watch" is a page-turning fantasy thriller, an international bestseller that represents the most original writing in its genre since Anne Rice's "An Interview With a Vampire"