4.4
Skin Game (The Dresden Files, Book 15)
by Jim Butcher
Review ''Butcher is the dean of contemporary urban fantasy.'' --Booklist Product Description Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day ...Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it's something awful.He doesn't know the half of it.Mab has just traded Harry's skills to pay off one of her debts. And now he must help a group of supernatural villains -- led by one of Harry's most dreaded and despised enemies, Nicodemus Archleone -- to break into the highest-security vault in town, so that they can then access the highest-security vault in the Nevernever.It's a smash and grab job to recover the literal Holy Grail from the vaults of the greatest treasure hoard in the supernatural world -- which belongs to the one and only Hades, Lord of the freaking Underworld and generally unpleasant character. Worse, Dresden suspects that there is another game afoot that no one is talking about. And he's dead certain that Nicodemus has no intention of allowing any of his crew to survive the experience. Especially Harry.Dresden's always been tricky, but he's going to have to up his backstabbing game to survive this mess-assuming his own allies don't end up killing him before his enemies get the chance. About the Author Jim Butcher is a martial arts enthusiast whose résumé includes a long list of skills rendered obsolete at least two hundred years ago. He turned to writing as a career because anything else probably would have driven him insane. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files, the Codex Alera, and the Cinder Spires novels.
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RELEASED2014
PUBLISHERRecorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing
LENGTH1
LANGUAGEEN
"Jim Butcher is a martial arts enthusiast with fifteen years of experience in various styles including Ryukyu Kempo, Tae Kwon Do, Gojo Shorei Ryu, and a sprinkling of Kung Fu. He is a skilled rider and has worked as a summer camp horse wrangler and performed in front of large audiences in both drill riding and stunt riding exhibitions. Jim enjoys fencing, singing, bad science fiction movies and live-action gaming. He lives in Missouri with his wife, son, and a vicious guard dog. Jim goes by the moniker Longshot in a number of online locales. He came by this name in the early 1990′s when he decided he would become a published author. Usually only 3 in 1000 who make such an attempt actually manage to become published; of those, only 1 in 10 make enough money to call it a living. The sale of a second series was the breakthrough that let him beat the long odds against attaining a career as a novelist. All the same, he refuses to change his nickname." [Jim-Butcher.com][1] [1]: http://www.jim-butcher.com/jim
4.4
Skin Game (The Dresden Files, Book 15)
by Jim Butcher
Review ''Butcher is the dean of contemporary urban fantasy.'' --Booklist Product Description Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day ...Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it's something awful.He doesn't know the half of it.Mab has just traded Harry's skills to pay off one of her debts. And now he must help a group of supernatural villains -- led by one of Harry's most dreaded and despised enemies, Nicodemus Archleone -- to break into the highest-security vault in town, so that they can then access the highest-security vault in the Nevernever.It's a smash and grab job to recover the literal Holy Grail from the vaults of the greatest treasure hoard in the supernatural world -- which belongs to the one and only Hades, Lord of the freaking Underworld and generally unpleasant character. Worse, Dresden suspects that there is another game afoot that no one is talking about. And he's dead certain that Nicodemus has no intention of allowing any of his crew to survive the experience. Especially Harry.Dresden's always been tricky, but he's going to have to up his backstabbing game to survive this mess-assuming his own allies don't end up killing him before his enemies get the chance. About the Author Jim Butcher is a martial arts enthusiast whose résumé includes a long list of skills rendered obsolete at least two hundred years ago. He turned to writing as a career because anything else probably would have driven him insane. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files, the Codex Alera, and the Cinder Spires novels.
Subjects
RELEASED2014
PUBLISHERRecorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing
LENGTH1
LANGUAGEEN
"Jim Butcher is a martial arts enthusiast with fifteen years of experience in various styles including Ryukyu Kempo, Tae Kwon Do, Gojo Shorei Ryu, and a sprinkling of Kung Fu. He is a skilled rider and has worked as a summer camp horse wrangler and performed in front of large audiences in both drill riding and stunt riding exhibitions. Jim enjoys fencing, singing, bad science fiction movies and live-action gaming. He lives in Missouri with his wife, son, and a vicious guard dog. Jim goes by the moniker Longshot in a number of online locales. He came by this name in the early 1990′s when he decided he would become a published author. Usually only 3 in 1000 who make such an attempt actually manage to become published; of those, only 1 in 10 make enough money to call it a living. The sale of a second series was the breakthrough that let him beat the long odds against attaining a career as a novelist. All the same, he refuses to change his nickname." [Jim-Butcher.com][1] [1]: http://www.jim-butcher.com/jim
