Dead Beat, Book 7 of The Dresden Files
Jim Butcher

Dead Beat
Author: Jim Butcher
Book 7 of The Dresden Files
Paperback
ISBN-10: 0451460278



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Theres an entire world that exists alongside the everyday life of mankind. There are powers, nations, monsters, wars, feuds, alliances--everything. Wizards are part of it. So are a lot of other things youve heard about in stories, and even more youve never heard of .... Vampires. Werewolves. Faeries. Demons. Monsters. Its all real.

Harry Dresden knows full well that such creatures exist. Paranormal investigations are his stock-in-trade, and Chicago is his beat as he tries to bring law and order to a world that exists on the edges of imagination. Luckily Harrys not alone in this struggle. And though most inhabitants of the Windy City dont believe in magic, theres a department thats been set up within the Chicago PD to deal with "strange" cases: the Special Investigations Dept.

Karrin Murphy is the head of SI and a good friend of Harrys. So when a deadly vampire threatens to destroy Murphys reputation unless Harry helps her, he has no choice. The vampire wants the Word of Kemmler and all the power that comes with it -- but first Harry has to determine what the Word of Kemmler is. Now Harry is in a race against time-- and six necromancers--to find the Word before Chicago experiences a Halloween night to wake the dead...