Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day. Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it’s something awful. Mab has traded Harry’s skills to pay off a debt. And now he must help a group of villains led by Harry’s most despised enemy, Nicodemus Archleone, to break into a high-security vault so that they can then access a vault in the Nevernever. Problem is, the vault belongs to Hades, Lord of the freaking Underworld. And Dresden is dead certain that Nicodemus has no intention of allowing any of his crew to survive the experience. Dresden’s always been tricky, but he’s going to have to up his backstabbing game to survive this mess.…

哈利‧德列斯登，全美唯一掛著巫師招牌營業的私家偵探，即將迎來厄運連連的一天。作為空氣與黑暗女王瑪柏手下的冬日騎士，哈利永遠也不知道他詭計多端的上司在策劃什麼。而瑪柏策劃的通常不是什麼好事。如今，哈利接下了瑪柏交付的工作，必須協助他最厭惡的敵人尼可迪莫斯‧阿克萬，以及其旗下的惡棍，闖入一個嚴密防護的金庫，並藉此進入一個位於幻界的寶庫。麻煩的是，這個寶庫屬於可怖的冥府之主黑帝斯。而且哈利十分確定，尼可迪莫斯打算在這次行動中陷害所有的參與者。雖然哈利一向狡滑機智，但在這場爾虞我詐的混亂賽局中，他必須用上所有的手段才能存活下來……