Product Description

Harry Dresden--Wizard Lost items found. Paranormal investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment.

Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the "everyday" world is actually full of strange and magical things--and most of them don't play too well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Takes a wizard to catch a--well, whatever.

There's just one problem. Business, to put it mildly, stinks. So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's magic, there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry's name. And that's when things start to get... interesting.

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #533 in eBooks
• Published on: 2007-09-25
• Released on: 2007-09-25
• Format: Kindle Book
• Number of items: 1

From Publishers Weekly
As in the audio adaptation of Butcher's first Dresden Files novel, Storm Front, Marsters (who played Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer) slips easily into the role of down-on-his-luck wizard Harry Dresden. Marsters's self-deprecating tone fits the character perfectly; he reads with a dry, ironic humor that doesn't mask Harry's genuine concern for the lives of innocents. Marsters also displays a remarkable skill for lending even the strangest characters and creatures voices-including gentleman gangster Johnny Marconi, his henchmen, a sexy female werewolf and Bob, the British-accented talking skull. In this outing, Harry is again out of cash, and police detective Karrin Murphy, who's still angry at him over the events of the first book, isn't inclined to throw work his way. But soon a series of mysterious, violent murders sends her to Harry for help. Are the killings the work of a local motorcycle gang? Or a werewolf-and if so, which werewolf? Mac Finn, the werewolf environmentalist? The group of idealistic college kids who voluntarily become werewolves by night? Or the trigger-happy group of FBI agents turned werewolf vigilantes? Though the price of this audio package may put off some listeners, Marsters's lively telling makes it worth every penny.
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Review
"An exciting debut novel... Wish I'd thought of this myself. Try it. You'll like it." -- Glen Cook, author of _Faded Steel Heat_

"Exciting, well-plotted, complex, an excellent read and amazingly good first novel." -- Chris Bunch, author of _The Warrior King_

From the Publisher
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Customer Reviews

Wonderful Fantasy/Wizard series...horrible audio CD
I have read all ten of the Harry Dresden books and I have to say that they pull you in from the very beginning. They have a wonderful mix of wizardry, romance, suspense, violence, you name it. It all blends together in a way that leaves you longing for the next book in the series.

I must caution you though on the audio versions of the first 4 books that have been released. When I first saw the audio book versions, I was very excited until I heard them. James Marsters is the narrator and he is horrible. I highly enjoy watching James Marsters act (Buffy, Angle, Torchwood, Smallville) but narrate...he cannot. He just sounds bored. Only on characters that are not Harry Dresden does he seem to try...

If I would have started the series with the audio books...I probably never would have given them a chance and truly missed out on a wonderful series.

My advice. Read the books...enjoy the short lived TV show...skip the audio books.

Storm Front
For A First Time Author, This Book Wasn't Half Bad. I Didn't Like How He Had Put It In A First Person View The Entire Book, And It Seemed All He Did Was Run Around With His Brian Turned Off. Would I Recommend, If Your Bored Then Yes, Otherwise Don't Bother.

A combination of my two favourite genres
Harry Dresden is a private investigator in Chicago. Not just any P.I. mind you but a practicing wizard who occasionally helps the Chicago Police when they have cases that aren't quite 'normal', and do they have a doozy for Harry now, a double murder involving the mob and a high price call girl ring.

So as a combination of fantasy and hard boiled detective stories how did I like it? Well it was good but not great. There was lots of good action with vampires, demons and even giant scorpions. Butcher's writing style is a little wooden (although I understand this was his first book so I can cut him a little slack). However there were problems integrating magic and the real world. Specifically of the `if a wizard can do X then why doesn't he just do Y instead of bothering with Z' variety. The magic is so powerful that you would expect wizards to dominate society instead of skulking in the shadows. Butcher tries to tackle this problem by laying out some guidelines in the use of magic in his world. He implies also that it is one of the functions of the White Council to police the use of magic, but if this is the case why is Harry Dresden P.I. investigating these murders and not the White Council? In fact I believe the novel would have been better served if Harry had been an agent of the White Council tracking down rogue wizards and other dangerous creatures encroaching on the non-magical world, while at the same time trying to keep his magical identity secret. But that would have worked against the hard boiled detective vibe Butcher is aiming for.