
Dresden summons a demon and trades part of his full name for information on MacFinn before he can investigate further, Murphy arrests him on suspicion of murder. On his way out the door, Marcone says that these killings are connected to a millionaire named Harley MacFinn and his Northwest Passage Project. Marcone offers to hire Dresden for protection, but Dresden refuses. Dresden escapes unscathed, but now the Streetwolves want him dead.


After consulting with his oracular skull, Bob, Dresden informs Murphy of the existence of four different types of lupine theriomorphs: classic werewolves, hexenwolves, loup-garous and lycanthropes.Īt the police station, Dresden gets a tip from one agent that the Streetwolves biker gang might know something about the murder, and learns that the Streetwolves and their "pack leader", Parker, are lycanthropes. Without telling Murphy, Dresden magically follows a blood trace at the scene that leads him to a confrontation with a gang of teenage werewolves and their pack leader, Tera West. They are ordered off the scene by a team of four FBI agents, one of whom shoots at Dresden and Murphy and nearly kills them. Karrin Murphy asks Dresden to consult on a homicide, in which the savaged body of a henchman of mobster Johnny Marcone has been found near a group of wolf-like paw prints. Dresden withholds the information, because such circles are generally used to contain demigods and archangels.

Plot summary Īfter the events in Storm Front, Kim Delaney, whom Dresden helped learn to control her magical talents, asks Dresden how to create a set of three magical circles which could be used to contain powerful entities. It is the second novel in The Dresden Files, which follows the character of Harry Dresden, present-day Chicago's only advertising professional wizard. Print ( paperback) & AudioBook ( Audio cassette & Audio CD)įool Moon is a 2001 contemporary fantasy novel by author Jim Butcher.
