Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross presents the next case in The Laundry Files, a weirdly alluring blend of super-spy thriller, deadpan comic fantasy, and Lovecraftian horror Kirkus Reviews. Dominique OBrien—her friends call her Mo—lives a curious double life with her husband, Bob Howard. To the average civilian, theyre boring middle-aged civil servants. But within the labyrinthian secret circles of Her Majestys government, theyre operatives working for the nations occult security service known as the Laundry, charged with defending Britain against dark supernatural forces threatening humanity.Mos latest assignment is assisting the police in containing an unusual outbreak ordinary citizens suddenly imbued with extraordinary abilities of the super-powered kind.
