Nicodemus brings along his daughter, who also has one of the demon-possessed coins. Harry wants to bring along Karrin Murphy. The good, the bad, and the shaggy will team up in this crazy and deadly effort. To do that, he has to first break into the highest security vault on Earth to match a Way into the Nevernever that corresponds with Hades’s vault. But this wouldn’t be a Dresden Files book if things weren’t difficult, right? Nicodemus plans to steal a powerful religious artifact right out of the vault of Hades in the Underworld. Harry isn’t happy about this, but on the surface it doesn’t sound particularly hard. Mab shows up and she has traded Harry’s skills in order to pay off a debt Harry will have to assist his arch nemesis Nicodemus Nickelhead in a vault heist. So Harry has been working on all his physical and magical skills, running through the underground Prison of Nasty Badasses yelling ‘Parkour!’ as he leaps over obstacles and careens around corners. Messy! But the power of Demon Reach can keep it under wraps for a while until Molly can show up and help remove it. Harry has been stuck on Demon Reach island because he has this parasite in his head that is nearly ready to pop – which means his head would explode. Mab was supremely happy with that and is enjoying training Molly up. The biggest one for me was that Molly became the new, and youngest, Lady Winter. So I recommend reading the previous books before you jump into this one.Īt the end of the previous book, Cold Days, there was some game changers that came out in that nudity fight.

This book does work as a stand alone to some extent, but you will get major spoilers for the previous books in the series and it also pulls in characters we have met before. Note: I feel that Death Masks, Book 5, is where reading this series out of order starts to do you an injustice.

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