Proven Guilty
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4.7 • 831 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Wizard for hire Harry Dresden has to track down the things that go bump in the night in this novel in Jim Butcher's #1 New York Times bestselling series.
There’s no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined. But war with the vampires has thinned their ranks, so the Council has drafted Harry as a Warden and assigned him to look into rumors of black magic in the Windy City.
As Harry adjusts to his new role, another problem arrives in the form of the tattooed and pierced daughter of an old friend—all grown up and already in trouble. Her boyfriend is the only suspect in what looks like a supernatural assault straight out of a horror film. Malevolent entities that feed on fear are loose in Chicago, but it’s all in a day’s work for a wizard, his faithful dog, and a talking skull named Bob...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only consulting wizard, takes on phobophages, creatures that feed on fear who attack a horror film convention, in the diverting eighth installment of Butcher's increasingly complicated Dresden Files series (Dead Beat, etc.). Harry finds that fighting monsters is only the prelude to maneuvers amid the warring wizards of the White Council and the vampire Red Court. Less and less V.I. Warshawski with witchcraft, Harry aims his deductive powers at political intrigues rather than crime solving. The body count from the magical melees, however, would do any hard-boiled gumshoe proud. Butcher's believable, likable set of characters go for the jocular much more than the jugular. Deeper fears do run through the book, and Harry, taking on an apprentice, has to face up to the consequences of his all-too-human failings. Look for the series to really take off with the debut of a two-hour pilot on the Sci-Fi Channel this summer produced by Nicholas Cage.
Customer Reviews
Absolutely amazing
Best book series I have read Ever. I have read lots of series.
Brilliant From Start to Finish
I found book 8 to be simply amazing.
The Story telling opposed to the previous books, Is a lot more paced, The details the exposition on topics, and how events were naturally able to unravel without it being forced I think is what really pushes this book to another level opposed to the other books in the series.
Whilst Setting up a plot that has you on the edge of your seat, Waiting to uncover what’s really going down.
Imo This book is a must read for all Dresden Fans.
Wondrously entertaining!
Fabulously entertaining. Much tongue-in-cheek humor and an exceptionally well thought out plot.