‘The Sixth Watch’ is the final book in ‘The Night Watch’ sequence about the twilight and it’s ending is very significant. Anton gets it from all sides really and all he’s trying to do is save the world, daily…sometimes. Meanwhile, his domestic life must be protected at all costs as his wife and daughter are pretty powerful and, quite frankly, they are in charge of him. All in a day’s work then.Īnton must seek the help not only of his timeless boss Gesar but also the Dark side and the slightly mischievous Zabulon. The Sixth Watch has to save the world but has long been disbanded and nobody knows what it was or what it did. There is a problem deep at the heart of the Twilight and not just because it has its own sentient being known as the Tiger. Another must be secured if the threat to the world is to be neutralised. An old enemy who is supposedly vanquished appears to be an ally. Starting with an almost incidental incident of a vampire and a young girl who think tonight is the night to lose her virginity, the plot leads on to a complex series of events that show that Anton and the whole world is under threat.

It is all to help us hapless humans who have struggled to survive through the ages as the opposing forces balance each other out. In our world, Dark Others such as vampires and shape-shifters are licensed and magic is controlled. They are all able to enter the twilight which exists as several layers like a magical multiverse, where powers can be obtained but also lost. He represents the ‘good’ Others, the Night Watch who police the Dark Others who form the Day Watch. As a higher magician, Anton is sworn to protect humans. He is under attack from an unknown enemy and, after six books of this, he’s probably had enough.

Higher Light Magician Anton is on the case again.

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