Death Masks

Jim Butcher

Aug 2003 · Dresden Files Book 5 · Sold by Penguin Group

About this ebook

The Dresden Files have taken the genre of paranormal mystery to a new level of action, excitement, and hard-hitting magical muscle. Now, in Death Masks, Jim Butcher’s smart-guy private eye may have taken on more than he can handle...

Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change. But he also knows that whenever things are going good, the only way left for them to go is bad. Way bad. Such as:

• A duel with the lethal champion of the Red Court, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards...
• Professional hit men using Harry for target practice...
• The missing Shroud of Turin—and the possible involvement of Chicago's most feared mob boss...
• A handless and headless corpse the Chicago police need identified...

Not to mention the return of Harry’s ex-girlfriend Susan, who’s still struggling with her semi-vampiric nature. And who seems to have a new man in her life. Some days, it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed. No matter how much you’re charging.

Ratings and reviews

These books keep getting better and better. I always use the word "Awesome" as my descriptive summary, and though this book doesn't fall short of that single appraisal, I had to add something more. I've never seen a series rifle out so many good reads back to back. If life is a proverbial fruit bowl, here's to hoping some else gets the bad apple. On to the next

Each novel in the series is better than the last, and I just cannot believe how engrossing the series can be. Some of the best fantasy I've ever read.

Only not five stars because it was not my favorite book in the series so far. Fantastic read.

About the author

A martial arts enthusiast whose résumé includes a long list of skills rendered obsolete at least two hundred years ago, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher turned to writing as a career because anything else probably would have driven him insane. He lives mostly inside his own head so that he can write down the conversation of his imaginary friends, but his head can generally be found in Independence, Missouri. Jim is the author of the Dresden Files, the Codex Alera novels, and the Cinder Spires series, which began with The Aeronaut’s Windlass.