BooksOut Law: A Dresden Files Novella
The past comes back in a big way for Chicago's only professional wizard in this action-packed novella from the #1 New York Times–bestselling Dresden Files.In a city that's just beginning to recover from the devastation caused by the Battle of Chicago, Harry Dresden is finally pulling himself together as well. He's ensconced in his own personal castle, healing his various wounds, and training an eager new apprentice. The last thing he wants is any trouble. But, as history has consistently—and quite annoyingly—shown, what Harry wants is rarely what Harry gets.It starts with a visit from Harry's most powerful frenemy, Gentleman John Marcone, Baron of Chicago. He needs Harry to assist in the redemption of an underling who's looking to go straight. And since Harry does kinda sorta owe Marcone for saving his life once (stupid honorable debt!), it's not a request he can refuse. He'll just wish he had.Because this little favor is going to drag Harry into a fight he doesn't want on behalf of a lowlife he doesn't trust against an enemy more powerful and pestilent than he ever could've expected: an insatiable, demonic foe whom Harry himself may have created when he wiped out the vampires of the Red Court so long ago.Before, all it wanted was blood. Now it wants the entire world . . .
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Long-running urban fantasy and epic fantasy sagas often hinge on distinct magic systems and sharp narrative voices, as demonstrated in the Chicago-set investigative wizard series starting with Storm Front. Author Jim Butcher launched this universe while studying at the University of Oklahoma, blending hardboiled detective tropes with modern supernatural fiction.
Born on October 26, 1971, in Independence, Missouri, Jim Butcher was the youngest of three children. In the early 1990s, he adopted the online moniker Longshot upon committing to a career as a fiction writer, acknowledging the steep odds facing aspiring novelists. His breakthrough came after developing a manuscript for a class assignment about wizard private investigator Harry Dresden, which grew into the multi-volume Dresden Files series. Butcher expanded his repertoire beyond urban fantasy by launching the high-fantasy Codex Alera series with Furies of Calderon and the steampunk Cinder Spires series with The Aeronaut's Windlass. Outside of writing, his background includes fifteen years of martial arts practice in styles such as Ryukyu Kempo, Tae Kwon Do, Goju Shorei Ryu, and Kung Fu, alongside work as a summer camp horse wrangler, stunt rider, and fencer.
Butcher's narrative approach relies on fast-paced first-person perspective, sardonic humor, and meticulous world-building that treats magical mechanics with internal consistency. In his urban fantasy work, mundane urban settings exist alongside hidden supernatural hierarchies, forcing characters to navigate bureaucratic, political, and physical dangers. His high fantasy and steampunk works similarly feature structured elemental bonding and airship logistics, drawing on his personal interest in tabletop role-playing games, live-action gaming, and combat martial arts to inform tactical action sequences.