The second installment of the phenomenal Russian quartet  The Night Watch vampire novels set in a richly realized post-Soviet  Moscow. The second book in the internationally bestselling fantasy  series, The Day Watch begins where The Night Watch left  off, set in a modern-day Moscow where the 1,000-year-old treaty between  Light and Dark maintains its uneasy balance through careful vigilance  from the Others.

The forces of darkness keep an eye during the  day, the Day Watch, while the agents of Light monitor the nighttime.  Very senior Others called the Inquisitors are the impartial judges  insisting on the essential compact. When a very potent artifact is  stolen from them, the consequences are dire and drastic for all sides. The Day Watch introduces the perspective of the Dark Ones, told in part by a young  witch who bolsters her evil power by leeching fear from children's  nightmares as a counselor at a girls summer camp. When she falls in love  with a handsome young Light One, the balance is threatened and a death  must be avenged. The Day Watch is replete with the thrilling  action and intricate plotting of the first tale, fuelled by cunning,  cruelty, violence, and magic. It is a fast paced, darkly humorous,  haunting world that will take root in the shadows of your mind and live  there forever.