His name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. You can cast spells with this name — he is not responsible for the consequences. When things take a strange turn, when what is meant to be 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'… Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness, is back on top. For a debt owed by Dresden, her Winter Knight, she hires him out to Nicodemus Archleon, the head of the Order of the Dark Denarius, which has gathered under its wing those who have forged alliances with the Fallen angels, creatures cursed by the Lord. The goal of the kidnapping masterminded by Nicodemus, which also involves Dresden, is nothing less than the legendary Holy Grail. But to steal it, one must penetrate the treasury of Hades, the lord of the Underworld — in general, a real adventure has descended upon Harry Dresden, the professional wizard ('Dirty Play'). The stories in the collection 'Rules of Sorcery' include the American Wild West with its zombies and necromancers, a good-natured Bigfoot named River Shoulders, from whose son, a half-man-half-Bigfoot, vampires drained energy, and the Chicago stadium 'Wrigley,' under the curse of an angry tilwit-tag goat. There’s also much more, magical and not so much, serious and funny. And what unites this fantastic parade, of course, is Harry Dresden, a wizard with a heart of gold, just and merciful ('Rules of Sorcery'). The series of novels about Harry Dresden holds a worthy place alongside such well-known examples of fantasy-detective as the Garrett series, penned by Glen Cook.
