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Laundry Files (Book 1)

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Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. None of them receive any thanks for the jobs they do, but at least a techie doesn't risk getting shot or eaten in the line of duty. Bob's world is dull but safe, and that's the way it should have stayed; but then he went and got Noticed.

Now, Bob Howard is up to his neck in spycraft, alternative universes, dimension-hopping Nazis, Middle Eastern terrorists, damsels in distress, ancient Lovecraftian horror and the end of the world.

Only one thing is certain: it will take more than control+alt+delete to sort this mess out . . .

Critics Review

Brilliantly disturbing and funny at the same time
Ben Aaronovitch, author of RIVERS OF LONDON
Charles Stross owns this field, and his vast, cool intellect has launched yet another mad, sly entertainment that will strangle the hell out of anything else on offer right now
Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan
Stross at the top of his game - which is to say, few do it better
KIRKUS
Alternately chilling and hilarious
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ferociously enjoyable
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Author Charles Stross
Narrator Jack Hawkins
Series Laundry Files
Duration 10 hours and 57 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781405526043
Format Audiobook
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Genre Espionage and spy thriller, Science fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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