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4.7 • 828 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“The wildest, strangest, best Dresden adventure to date...Butcher’s blending of modern fantasy with classic noir sensibilities ensures that there’s never a dull moment.”—SF Site
Paranormal investigations are Harry Dresden’s business and Chicago is his beat, as he tries to bring law and order to a world of wizards and monsters that exists alongside everyday life. And though most inhabitants of the Windy City don’t believe in magic, the Special Investigations Department of the Chicago PD knows better.
Karrin Murphy is the head of S. I. and Harry’s good friend. So when a killer vampire threatens to destroy Murphy’s reputation unless Harry does her bidding, he has no choice. The vampire wants the Word of Kemmler (whatever that is) and all the power that comes with it. Now, Harry is in a race against time—and six merciless necromancers—to find the Word before Chicago experiences a Halloween night to wake the dead...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Butcher's seventh comic supernatural Dresden Files novel makes a welcome leap to hardcover (after 2004's Blood Rites). Harry Dresden, a wizard PI living in Chicago with his half-brother, who's an incubus, and his dog, Mouse, learns that his girlfriend, a Chicago police officer specializing in occult investigations, is being blackmailed by a vampire. Unfortunately, every dark-magic wielder in Chicago apparently wants the same thing as the vampire the spells of an unpleasant necromancer, Kemmler, whom Dresden's employers, the White Council, eliminated some years earlier. With Kemmler's spells one can summon the Erlking, the leader of the Wild Hunt, and draw on his magic to achieve godlike powers at the cost of thousands of lives. To thwart the various ghouls, sorcerers and body-stealers in their evil quest, Dresden must turn for help to a reluctantly heroic medical examiner, Waldo Butters; a pack of werewolves, the Alphas; and a fallen angel, disguised as a bookstore clerk. Horror fans with a sense of humor will be pleased.
Customer Reviews
Amazing
As with every Dresden files book, this one is simply fantastic. The language is simple enough that it is a fast read, the action is intense, and we finally get to experience the true turmoil of a wizard in modern days. Simply put, this is the best if the series so far, and that's no easy feat.
Buy it!!
audiobook?
Why is there an audiobook for every book accept this one on itunes?
Harry THE GOAT Dresden
What can I say about my boy Harry, I love these books I’m usually not even that big of a fan of mysteries but the way Jim is able to intertwine a mystery within the abolsute torment Harry goes through and somehow making a world of wizards vampires and everything else that goes bump in the night seem grounded and realistic what are the odds my two favorite wizards are named Harry the voice of Harry is so strong and compelling a man with immense power yet constantly struggles with even wanting to use it or why he has it but not only that but he makes mistakes a lot actually he is one of the most thought out protagonists I’ve ever had the pleasure of getting to know highly recommend the entire series