‘Turn Coat’ a thriller of the magical kind
When Harry Dresden’s nemesis Morgan knocks on his door a wounded, fugitive mess, Chicago’s only wizard PI has to make a choice: Help the enforcer warden who’s spent a lifetime persecuting him on suspicion of black magic or surrender the sanctimonious git to the White Council for trial and summary execution.
He has to think about it for a minute, but this is Dresden, the wiseass, in-your-face loner who’s spent the last 10 books following his own moral compass in the pursuit of what’s right, no matter the cost in lost friendships, broken relationships and serious bodily harm to his person. The evidence of Morgan’s guilt in the brutal slaying of a White Council member may be overwhelming, but Dresden knows he’s innocent and reluctantly becomes the ally of a man who’d gladly see him dead.
Author Jim Butcher pulls no punches in "Turn Coat," the latest installment of the "Dresden Files," which sinks readers even deeper into the politics of the magic world’s governing authority, the White Council. Fragmented by war with the vampires and divided by a conspiracy from within, the Council is all too willing to execute an innocent man to appease wizard factions out for vengeance, even though Morgan has been its faithful servant.
Dresden chokes on the hypocrisy and the Council’s destructive denial that it has a traitor in its midst. Compounding the menace from within is the incursion of an ancient evil that threatens what Dresden values above all — Thomas, the White Court vampire who is his half brother and only remaining family.
Butcher proves himself a master of urban fantasy in this tightly plotted, fast-moving story that plunges his main character into a dire series of choice and consequence. Doing the right thing costs, and in this book, Dresden finds he’s not the only one who’s going to pay.
