Book Preview A RESTORATION OF FAITH Takes place before Storm Front This is the first of the Dresden Files stories, chronologically, and it was the first time I tried to write short fiction for the professional market. I originally put it together as a class assignment at the University of Oklahoma’s Professional Writing program, more … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY JIM BUTCHER THE DRESDEN FILES STORM FRONT FOOL MOON GRAVE PERIL SUMMER KNIGHT DEATH MASKS BLOOD RITES DEAD BEAT PROVEN GUILTY WHITE NIGHT SMALL FAVOR TURN COAT CHANGES GHOST STORY COLD DAYS SKIN GAME SIDE JOBS (Anthology) BRIEF CASES (Anthology) THE CINDER SPIRES THE AERONAUT’S WINDLASS THE CODEX ALERA FURIES OF … Read more
Book Preview Chapter One There was a ticking time bomb inside my head and the one person I trusted to go in and get it out hadn’t shown up or spoken to me for more than a year. That’s a lot of time to start asking yourself questions. Who am I? What have I done … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY JIM BUTCHER THE DRESDEN FILES STORM FRONT FOOL MOON GRAVE PERIL SUMMER KNIGHT DEATH MASKS BLOOD RITES DEAD BEAT PROVEN GUILTY WHITE NIGHT SMALL FAVOR TURN COAT CHANGES GHOST STORY SIDE JOBS (ANTHOLOGY) THE CODEX ALERA FURIES OF CALDERON ACADEM’S FURY CURSOR’S FURY CAPTAIN’S FURY PRINCEPS’ FURY … Read more
Book Preview ROC Published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd., 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin … Read more
Book Preview I answered the phone, and Susan Rodriguez said, “They’ve taken our daughter.” I sat there for a long five count, swallowed, and said, “Um. What?” “You heard me, Harry,” Susan said gently. “The line isn’t secure,” she said. “I’ll be in town tonight. We can talk then.” “Yeah,” I said. “Okay.” “Harry . … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html I would like to thank Anne Sowards, my marvelous editor, my agent, Jenn Jackson, and my poor deluded beta readers. I’ve been facing the kinds of problems authors only dream about having, and you all … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html A NOVEL OF THE DRESDEN FILES Published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada … Read more
Book Preview Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are. I pulled my battle-scarred, multicolored old Volkswagen Beetle up in front of a run-down Chicago apartment building, not five blocks from my own rented basement apartment. Usually, by the time the cops call me, things are pretty … Read more
Book Preview Blood leaves no stain on a Warden’s grey cloak. I didn’t know that until the day I watched Morgan, second in command of the White Council’s Wardens, lift his sword over the kneeling form of a young man guilty of the practice of black magic. The boy, sixteen years old at the most, … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html I owe another round of thanks to the usual suspects: the inmates of the Beta Foo Asylum, both long-term and recent arrivals. The Dresden Files’s new editor, the warm and gracious Anne Sowards—are you sure you actually live in NYC, Anne? My agent, Jennifer Jackson, who has … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault. My boots slipped and slid on the tile floor as I sprinted around a corner and toward the exit doors to the abandoned school building on the southwest edge of Chicagoland. Distant streetlights provided the only light … Read more
Book Preview Some things just aren’t meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Wizards and television. Spotlights glared into my eyes. The heat of them threatened to make me sweat streaks through the pancake makeup some harried stagehand had slapped on me a few minutes before. Lights on top … Read more
Book Preview It rained toads the day the White Council came to town. I got out of the Blue Beetle, my beat-up old Volkswagen bug, and squinted against the midsummer sunlight. Lake Meadow Park lies a bit south of Chicago ‘s Loop, a long sprint fromLake Michigan ‘s shores. Even in heat like we’d had … Read more
Book Preview There are reasons I hate to drive fast. For one, the Blue Beetle, the mismatched Volkswagen bug that I putter around in, rattles and groans dangerously at anything above sixty miles an hour. For another, I don’t get along so well with technology. Anything manufactured after about World War II seems to be … Read more
Book Preview I never used to keep close track of the phases of the moon. So I didn’t know that it was one night shy of being full when a young woman sat down across from me in McAnally’s pub and asked me to tell her all about something that could get her killed. “No,” … Read more
Book Preview I heard the mailman approach my office door, half an hour earlier than usual. He didn’t sound right. His footsteps fell more heavily, jauntily, and he whistled. A new guy. He whistled his way to my office door, then fell silent for a moment. Then he laughed. I winced. My mail comes through … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html The Dresden Files Prequel I struggled to hold onto the yowling child while fumbling a quarter into the pay phone and jamming down the buttons to dial Nick’s mobile. “Ragged Angel Investigations,” Nick answered. His voice was tense, I thought, anxious. “It’s Harry,” I said. “You can … Read more