An adult wizard grappling with the abnormal interrupting a normal world, that's Harry Dresden for you. He thinks and talks like a wisecracking world-weary detective in the Philip Marlowe mould. But he stands out by being the only one of his kind, a wizard private detective sniffing the mean streets of Chicago.
Thanks to HRV's book investigating skills, I got to devour the first book in Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series. It was a good change to read a fantasy novel populated by adult wizards, after Harry Potter, Narnia and the Dark Materials trilogy. And the murders are as brutal as it can get, starting with two human hearts ripped off their bodies.
Dresden's special powers make him the archetypal misfit. His magical power ensures that modern implements quail at his touch, ranging from telephones to elevators. The flip side, he struggles to use them when most needed. The police take his help, but regard him with a mixture of suspicion and disdain.
Too involved in human concerns, Dresden does not cut much ice with the wizard world too. All in all, it's a tightrope walk throughout.
But in a cruel and cynical world, Dresden keeps humanity alive.
The successful book series was spun into a TV series earlier this year but failed to make a mark. Harry Dresden's role is essayed by a certain Paul Blackthorne (remember the arrogant Captain Russell of Lagaan)
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