Sergey Lukyanenko's The Watch Series

Sharp observational writing give this modern-day set fantasy series, in which good and evil have settled into an awkward truce, wider appeal than most genre fic. If you know any teens settling for Twilight, these are likely to be a revelation. Caveat: the author is also an outspoken Russian nationalist.

A couple of other short tales set in the same universe, Face of the Dark Palmira and The Other Among Others were written by other authors, and subsquently a whole series of tie-in fiction, but currently the only way you're going to get them in English is to make do with bad auto-translations. I think this might be a case of diminishing returns; the strongest material is probably in the first two or three main books whilst establishing the setting.

Material from the first book was adapted into the excellent films Night Watch and Day Watch.

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