Wizard by Trade by Jim Butcher is an omnibus containing the fourth and fifth books of his Dresden Files fantasy series, Summer Knight and Death Masks. In these two installments, Harry Dresden, Chicago's only openly practicing wizard, gets involved in a war between the summer fairies and the winter fairies - and if he cannot stop the war, the balance between summer and winter will be destroyed, causing destruction of the Earth's climate. He also must enter a deadly duel with a vampire war lord (in a hilariously described Wrigley Field, which is pretty obviously not the one in our world) - and hunt down a stolen Shroud of Turrin, which has been brought to Chicago by unknown persons for unknown reasons. Other people are also hunting the Shroud - to start the Apocalypse!
Wizard at Large by Jim Butcher is an omnibus containing the sixth and seventh books of his fantasy series called The Dresden Files. These books are called Blood Rites and Dead Beat. Harry Dresden is the only openly practicing wizard in Chicago, and all sorts of weird stuff gets thrown his way. But in the first of these two books he gains a great friend and ally in Mouse, a stolen Buddhist temple pup, of great and mysterious powers. He also discovers that he has an actual living relative - something he has not thought to have since his father died when he was still very young! Harry is hired on a weird case - to protect an adult film shoot from evil curses. And then dangerous necromancers converge on Chicago to find and gain power from a dangerous book of necromancy which has turned up. In order to fight them, and save his city, Harry must use necromancy himself - using the most famous corpse in Chicago!
Wizard Under Fire by Jim Butcher is an omnibus containing the eighth and ninth books in his The Dresden Files fantasy series. The books are called Proven Guilty and White Night. Harry Dresden is the only openly practicing wizard in the city of Chicago. As such, he gets involved in all sorts of very weird and bizarre cases, which often threaten to destroy the city and everyone in it. In these cases, Harry has to try to find the new practitioner of dark magic in the city - and when he discovers who it is, he must try to save them against the power of the White Council, who put all dark magic users to immediate death. He also has to figure out why movie monsters are coming to life and murdering people at a local horror convention. As if that is not enough, he is sent on a very dangerous mission to Fairy to find out why the winter court will not help the wizards in their war against the vampires. And - he has to track down the killer/s of the witches of Chicago and confront the White Court of the vampires - the ones who feed off of sexual and emotional energy...
This series of little fantasy books is not high or serious literature by any stretch of the imagination. But they are fast paced and fun - and Harry and his friends are charming and often they (and the hilariously erroneous descriptions of Chicago and environs) make me laugh!
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