num_pages: 160
description: In 1941, fleeing from the terrors of Hitler and the Second World War, a hundred people set sail from Australia for a remote island in the Pacific. They are led by the astonishing Brigadier Palmer, founder of S.W.O.R.D., the Society for World Order Under Divine Rule. The effect he is to have on the five teenagers in the group is devastating. Despite the ever-present fear of invasion by the Japanese, each one of them has private and personal hopes for the future - but they soon find that the Brigadier see a very different purpose for all their lives...This is both a story of war and of a struggle for power, written with all the skill and originality for which this award-winning author is deservedly famous.
language: English
title: The Long Night Watch
titlecomplete: The Long Night Watch (A Magnet Book)
ratings_count: 3
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Phoenix Award (Children's Literature Association)
publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd