A new novel in the world of The Laundry Files, sequel to 2022's Quantum of Nightmares.
Welcome to the sunlit uplands of the 21st century! Britain's avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much.
Hyperorganized and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. At least, she has reason to hope he's dead. But though she's now in charge of the Bigge Corporation, she's not free of him yet. Through the fecklessness of her brother Imp, combined with the intricate feudal law of a tiny Channel Island, it would appear that unbeknownst to her, she was married to Bigge -- and that proving his death and releasing herself from his arcane bindings will take years and cost millions.
Then an emissary of the Prime Minister arrives with an offer that she absolutely can't... well, you know.
This is the final novel in the trilogy that began with Dead Lies Dreaming and continued with Quantum of Nightmares.
Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 1250839394
Item Weight: 1.0 lbs
Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.2 x 8.5 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 501 to 1,000 ratings
Praise for the Laundry Files:
"Smart, literate, funny." --Lev Grossman, author of THE MAGICIANS
"A bizarre yet effective yoking of the spy and horror genres." --The Washington Post
"Imagine a world where gnarly Lovecraftian demons are all too real yet are routinely neutralized with high-tech wizardry by a supersecret British spy agency, and you'll get an inkling of the genre-bending territory Stross explores in his Laundry Files novels." --Booklist on THE FULLER MEMORANDUM
Charles Stross is the author of the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry Files series, and several stand-alone novels including GLASSHOUSE, ACCELERANDO, and SATURN'S CHILDREN. He has won three Hugo Awards, including one for the Laundry Files novella "Equoid," published on Tor.com. Born and raised in Leeds, England, he lives with his spouse in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a flat that is slightly older than the state of Texas.
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