Battle Ground (Dresden Files)

Product Description

THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET SERIOUS FOR HARRY DRESDEN, CHICAGO’S ONLY PROFESSIONAL WIZARD, in the next entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files.

Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. The Red Court of vampires. The fallen angels of the Order of the Blackened Denarius. The Outsiders.

But this time it’s different. A being more powerful and dangerous on an order of magnitude beyond what the world has seen in a millennium is coming. And she’s bringing an army. The Last Titan has declared war on the city of Chicago, and has come to subjugate humanity, obliterating any who stand in her way.

Harry’s mission is simple but impossible: Save the city by killing a Titan. And the attempt will change Harry’s life, Chicago, and the mortal world forever.

Review

“Just when you think he can’t take it up a notch, Butcher proves once more that he is freaking amazing. Wicked cool.”—#1
New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs

“Urban fantasy at its best, combining spectacular magic and deeply explored character.”—
Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“The arc begun in 
Peace Talks comes to a deadly, destructive finish in the 17th ‘Dresden Files’ book—and nothing will be the same again.”—
Library Journal (starred review)

Praise for Jim Butcher and The Dresden Files
“Harry Dresden is a wholly original character in a wholly original world. Every book in the series is a great adventure.”—#1
New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris

“I’ve been reading the Dresden Files for more than a decade, and somehow, every book gets better. It’s my favorite kind of story: delightful, deep, complicated, rare, and wonderful.”—#1
New York Times bestselling author Patrick Rothfuss

“Jim Butcher has long proven he can juggle multiple threads of political intrigue, personal drama, and threat with a masterful use of action and tension. . . . Harry’s hard-earned grit keeps his head above the magical waters and me on the edge of my seat.”—#1
New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison

“Think
Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Philip Marlowe.”—
Entertainment Weekly

“One of the most enjoyable marriages of the fantasy and mystery genres on the shelves.”—
Cinescape
 
“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

About the Author

Jim Butcher is the #1
New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files, the Codex Alera, and the Cinder Spires novels. He lives in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

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One

Apocalypses always kick off at the witching hour.

That’s something you know now.

It makes sense, if you think about it. An apocalypse, by its nature, is kind of doomy and gloomy. The best time for gathering energy for that kind of working is when you’re in the deepest, darkest, coldest part of the night. That time of stillness between, oh, two in the morning and dawn. There’re a lot of names for that time of night. The witching hour. The hour of the wolf. The dead of night. I could go on and on, because we all have names for it.

But they’re all talking about the same time. The hour when you sit up in bed, sweating from nightmares. The hour when you awaken for no reason but to fear the future. The hour when you stare at the clock, willing yourself to sleep, knowing it isn’t going to happen, and weariness and despair beat upon the doors to the vaults of your mind with leaden clubs.

That’s where an apocalypse begins: the witching hour.

And I was charging straight into one as fast as I could.

My brother’s old boat, the Water Beetle, a seedy, beat-up twin to the Orca in Jaws, was too dumpy to skip over the waves of Lake Michigan as we headed for the blacked-out city of Chicago, but it bulldogged its way through them nonetheless.

An Enemy, capi