Nicodemus, leader of the Denarians and father of Deirdre, pressures Dresden to join with the Denarian Lasciel or die. The sale is interrupted by the Denarians, who seize the Shroud and kidnap Dresden. Marcone attempts to evict them, but they evade capture and locate Anna. She has tickets to a high society art sales charity event run by John Marcone, where the Shroud will likely be sold. Susan, who has been in touch, is waiting outside McAnally's with a tux and a limo. The surviving thief, Anna Valmont, steals Dresden's black leather duster and flees with the Shroud. Dresden fools the Denarian into taking a decoy safe that does not contain the Shroud and leaving. Deirdre, another Denarian, attacks the boat and kills one of the thieves. Later, Dresden tracks the Shroud to a boat and is captured and handcuffed by the thieves while trying to recover it. A neutral mediator selected by the White Council, she is the guarantor that the duel is conducted by the Accords. The Archive, a little girl containing the sum of humanity's written knowledge, and her bodyguard Kincaid, arrive to make the arrangements for Ortega's duel. However, they did not receive the whole prophecy, which states that if Dresden is not involved, all the Knights will die, as will everyone in the city of Chicago.
He learns the knights received an angelic prophecy: if Dresden is involved, he will die. In his Lab, Dresden consults an oracle spirit.
Michael Carpenter and two other Knights of the Cross, Shiro and Sanya, rescue him and ask him to drop the case, but Dresden refuses. Outside, Dresden is attacked by the Denarian Ursiel, a Fallen Angel attached to a mortal host. Later, Murphy hires Dresden to investigate the corpse who apparently died of every disease known to man. And, São Paulo University Professor Ortega, a Red Court Vampire noble, challenges Dresden to a duel to end the war between the White Council and the Red Court. A member of the Fellowship of Saint Giles, a support group for Red Court infected.ĭuring a taping session of The Larry Fowler Show, Harry Dresden meets Father Vincent, a Vatican priest, who hires Dresden to recover the stolen Shroud of Turin.
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