Proven Guilty - Dresden Files 8

Zusatztext Praise for the Dresden Files “Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Philip Marlowe.”— Entertainment Weekly “Fans of Laurell  K. Hamilton and Tanya Huff will love this series.”— Midwest Book Review   “Superlative.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review)   “One of the most enjoyable marriages of the fantasy and mystery genres on the shelves.”— Cinescape   “Butcher...spins an excellent noirish detective yarn in a well-crafted! supernaturally-charged setting. The supporting cast is again fantastic! and Harry’s wit continues to fly in the face of a peril-fraught plot.”— Booklist (starred review)   “What’s not to like about this series?...It takes the best elements of urban fantasy! mixes it with some good old-fashioned noir mystery! tosses in a dash of romance and a lot of high-octane action! shakes! stirs! and serves.”— SF Site   “A tricky plot complete with against-the-clock pacing! firefights! explosions! and plenty of magic. Longtime series fans as well as newcomers drawn by the SciFi Channel’s TV series based on the novels should find this supernatural mystery a real winner.”— Library Journal   “What would you get if you crossed Spenser with Merlin? Probably you would come up with someone very like Harry Dresden! wizard! tough guy and star of [the Dresden Files].”— The Washington Times Informationen zum Autor Jim Butcher Klappentext 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...One Blood leaves no stain on a Warden’s grey cloak. I didn’t know that until the day I watched Morgan, second in command of the White Council’s Wardens, lift his sword over the kneel­ing form of a young man guilty of the practice of black magic. The boy, sixteen years old at the most, screamed and ranted in Korean underneath his black hood, his mouth spilling hatred and rage, convinced by his youth and power of his own immortality. He never knew it when the blade came down. Which I guess was a small mercy. Microscopic, really. His blood flew in a scarlet arc. I wasn’t ten feet away. I felt hot droplets strike one cheek, and more blood covered the left side of the cloak in blotches of angry red. The head fell to the ground, and I saw the cloth over it moving, as if the boy’s mouth were still screaming imprecations. The body fell onto its side. One calf muscle twitched spasmodically and then stopped. After maybe five seconds, the head did too. Morgan stood over the still form for a moment, the bright silver sword of the White Council of Wizards’ justice in his hands. Besides him and me, there were a dozen Wardens present, and two members of the Senior Council—the Merlin and my one-time mentor, Ebenezar McCoy. The covered head stopped its feeble movements. Morgan glanced up at the Merlin and nodded once. The Merlin returned the nod. “May he find peace.” “Peace,” the Wardens all replied together. Except me. I turned my back on them, and made it two steps away be­fore I threw up...

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Praise for the Dresden Files

Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Philip Marlowe. Entertainment Weekly

Fans of Laurell  K. Hamilton and Tanya Huff will love this series. Midwest Book Review
 
Superlative. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
One of the most enjoyable marriages of the fantasy and mystery genres on the shelves. Cinescape
 
Butcher...spins an excellent noirish detective yarn in a well-crafted, supernaturally-charged setting. The supporting cast is again fantastic, and Harry s wit continues to fly in the face of a peril-fraught plot. Booklist (starred review)
 
What s not to like about this series?...It takes the best elements of urban fantasy, mixes it with some good old-fashioned noir mystery, tosses in a dash of romance and a lot of high-octane action, shakes, stirs, and serves. SF Site
 
A tricky plot complete with against-the-clock pacing, firefights, explosions, and plenty of magic. Longtime series fans as well as newcomers drawn by the SciFi Channel s TV series based on the novels should find this supernatural mystery a real winner. Library Journal
 
What would you get if you crossed Spenser with Merlin? Probably you would come up with someone very like Harry Dresden, wizard, tough guy and star of [the Dresden Files]. The Washington Times

Product details

• Authors: Jim Butcher
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.02.2007
• EAN: 9780451461032
• ISBN: 978-0-451-46103-2
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 172 mm x 34 mm
• Series: Roc; Dresden Files; Die dunklen Fälle des Harry Dresden; Dresden Files; Die dunklen Fälle des Harry Dresden
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy