Business has been slow. Okay, business has been dead. And not even of the undead variety. You would think Chicago would have a little more action for the only professional wizard in the phone book. But lately, Harry Dresden hasn't been able to dredge up any kind of work — magical or mundane.

But just when it looks like he can't afford his next meal, a murder comes along that requires his particular brand of supernatural expertise.A brutally mutilated corpse. Strange-looking paw prints. A full moon. Take three guesses — and the first two don't count...

Fool Moon is the second installment of the Dresden Files series.Our hero,Harry Dresden is back,flat broke with the rent overdue.It's been too quiet lately and so was his consultancy work with Chicago PD.But wait,there's murder afoot,the savage mutilating kind.From the strange animal paw prints Harry knew it was the work of a werewolf,but what he didn't expect was there were three kinds of werewolves in town.Add the FBI hot on his trail believing Harry is the murderer,a roving pack of werewolves with a different agenda and a biker gang of lycanthropes is going to take more than the usual wards and spells for our wizard to live through all of this mayhem.

Fool Moon is more than a retelling of your classic werewolf tale.It explains the origins of the creature's magical counterpart- the Hexenwolf,the human wolf wraiths-the Lycanthropes and the Loup Garou,what Bob the air spirit refer to as a kind super-werewolf,savagery in pure monster form. Harry meets Tera West,guardian and pack mother of the Alphas-a group of college students who possess werewolf powers in order to protect their neighborhood from other supernatural predators.Billy and Georgia,college students/Alpha werewolves who became Dresden's loyal allies.FBI agents Denton and Benn who seem to have an agenda against Dresden.Plus the books regular characters,Chicago PD's Lt.Karrin Murphy,The Archane reporter Susan Ramirez,Bob the Air Spirit,Mister-Harry's pet tomcat,Mac-owner of the wizard tavern Mcnally's,and Gentleman Johnny Marcone.

Fool Moon reinvents the myth of the werewolf.Add Dresden's vivid narration of to coin a phrase"The Beast Wars",madke one feel exactly what the hero felt during the heat of battle.Cold fear,apprehension,courage,despair and determination to go up against the one of most terrifying supernatural creatures of legend.