title: Small Favor (The Dresden Files, Book 10)
author:  Jim Butcher 
description: <DIV>A martial arts enthusiast whose resume includes a long list of skills rendered obsolete at least two hundred years ago, Jim Butcher turned to writing as a career because anything else probably would have driven him insane. He lives with his wife, his son and a ferocious guard dog. </div>
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  **CONTENTS**
  
  [Title Page](../Text/title.html#tit)
  
  Epigraph
  
  Book One: The Nearer the Bone
  
  Chapter 1
  
  Chapter 2
  
  Chapter 3
  
  Chapter 4
  
  Chapter 5
  
  Chapter 6
  
  Chapter 7
  
  Chapter 8
  
  Chapter 9
  
  Book Two: The Sweeter the Meat
  
  Chapter 10
  
  Chapter 11
  
  Chapter 12
  
  Chapter 13
  
  Chapter 14
  
  Chapter 15
  
  Chapter 16
  
  Book Three: Waste Not
  
  Chapter 17
  
  Chapter 18
  
  Chapter 19
  
  Chapter 20
  
  Chapter 21
  
  Chapter 22
  
  Chapter 23
  
  Chapter 24
  
  Chapter 25
  
  Book Four: Tower of Silence
  
  Chapter 26
  
  Chapter 27
  
  Chapter 28
  
  Chapter 29
  
  Chapter 30
  
  Chapter 31
  
  Chapter 32
  
  Chapter 33
  
  Epilogue
  
  Acknowledgments
  
  Also by Paul Grossman
  
  About the Author
  
  Copyright
  
  > What is weak must be hammered away.
  
  > —A. Hitler
  
  **Book One**
  
   **THE NEARER THE BONE**
  
  **One**
  
   **BERLIN**  
   **OCTOBER 1929**
  
  “I’ll teach you the meaning of respect—” The schoolmarm’s whip sent shivers up
  Willi’s legs. “Drop those drawers.”
  
  Below, the knickers-clad boys trembled as their instructor approached in her
  shiny black boots. “Be