For years, Harry Dresden has been Chicago's only professional wizard, but a bargain made in desperation with the Queen of Air and Darkness has forced him into a new job: professional killer.
Mab, the mother of wicked faeries, has restored the mostly-dead wizard to health, and dispatches him upon his first mission—to bring death to an immortal. Even as he grapples with the impossible task, Dresden learns of a looming danger with the potential to destroy billions and to land Dresden in the deepest trouble he has ever known—even deeper than being dead...