The Dresden Archives. Changes. Hell of a Job

His name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. You can work magic with that name - he isn’t responsible for the consequences. When things take a strange turn, when that which should remain buried in darkness crawls into the light, when... no one else can help you, call... Who? Him, Harry Dresden. His name is in the "Yellow Pages"... What would you feel if you suddenly found out you had a daughter? And what would you feel if you were told that your daughter was kidnapped? Right, a double shock. One of joy, the other of outrage. And to save her, you should be prepared to give up everything valuable in your life. Harry Dresden has to ally himself with forces that are openly hostile to him, commit acts impossible for an ordinary person. And even, if fate demands, to spare his own life ("Changes").
Dresden's trouble is that he is the only professional wizard in all of alternative Chicago, and there is no one else to turn to. Hence the countless conflicts. Sometimes he's confronted by insane necromancers, sometimes he crosses paths with powerful crowned fairies, sometimes mysterious vampires from the Black Council take a grudge against Harry... It is from such stories, sometimes dead serious, sometimes absurdly funny, that "Hell of a Job" is composed - a selection from the many materials stored in Dresden's personal archives.
The cycle of works about Harry Dresden holds a worthy place alongside such a well-known example of fantasy detective as the series about the adventures of Garrett, born from the pen of Glen Cook.