Published in the year 2000 by American author Jim Butcher, Storm Front is the first is a series of novels called The Dresden Files, which follows the exploits of a Chicago wizard with the terrible name of Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Harry acts as a wizard-for-hire and a paranormal consultant for the Chicago Police Department. The series is currently comprised of 17 novels, and Storm Front is currently sitting at 3.9 stars out of five on Good Reads, composed from 347,000 ratings with over 20,000 reviews.