漫画内容简介[机翻]：一场战争正在红庭和白庭的吸血鬼势力之间激烈地进行着——巫师们正在输掉这场战争。理事会是如此绝望以至于他们强迫有经验的和被抛弃的人来加强他们日渐减少的典狱长队伍。哈里·德累斯顿(Harry Dresden)是这些被征召的人之一，他是芝加哥唯一的受雇巫师，长期以来一直受到超自然权威的怀疑。现在，他是其中的一员，作为典狱长，他的第一个重大任务是一个非常出色的任务:带着一小队新手到一个偏僻的寒冷小镇去营救一小撮被红色法庭盯上的凡人。问题是，为什么这些特殊的凡人对战争的结果如此重要?只有哈利能让他们和他的团队活过一个漫长的夜晚，答案才会出现。
原文内容简介：Kirkus A war is raging between the vampire forces of the Red Court and the White Council - a war that the wizards are losing. So desperate are the Council that they've dragooned the experienced and the outcast to reinforce their thinning ranks of Wardens. One of these draftees is one Harry Dresden, Chicago's only wizard-for-hire and a guy who's long been looked upon with suspicion by the supernatural authorities. Now, he's one of them, and his first big mission as a Warden is a doozy: take a small team of greenhorns to a frigid town in the middle of nowhere to rescue a handful of mortals who've been targeted by the Red Court. The question is, why exactly are these particular mortals so crucial to the outcome of the war? The answer will come only if Harry can keep them, and his team, alive for one very long night.
