The Annihilation Score (Laundry Files) - Hardcover

Stross, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0425281175 ISBN 13: 9780425281178

Publisher: Ace Books, 2015

Synopsis

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 O'Brien--her friends call her Mo--lives a curious double life with her husband, Bob Howard. To the average civilian, they're boring middle-aged civil servants. But within the labyrinthian secret circles of Her Majesty's government, they're operatives working for the nation's occult security service known as the Laundry, charged with defending Britain against dark supernatural forces threatening humanity.

Mo's latest assignment is assisting the police in containing an unusual outbreak: ordinary citizens suddenly imbued with extraordinary abilities of the super-powered kind. Unfortunately these people prefer playing super-pranks instead of super-heroics. The Mayor of London being levitated by a dumpy man in Trafalgar Square would normally be a source of shared amusement for Mo and Bob, but they're currently separated because something's come between them--something evil.

An antique violin, an Erich Zann original, made of human white bone, was designed to produce music capable of slaughtering demons. Mo is the custodian of this unholy instrument. It invades her dreams and yearns for the blood of her colleagues--and her husband. And despite Mo's proficiency as a world class violinist, it cannot be controlled...

About this title

Review:

Praise for the Laundry Files Novels

"A bizarre yet effective yoking of the spy and horror genres."
--The Washington Post Book World

"A bravura display of intelligent action and real human characters amid eldritch menaces."
--S. M. Stirling, New York Times bestselling author of The Desert and the Blade

"A terrific pull-no-punches paranormal espionage thriller."
--Alternative Worlds

Book Description:

In this science fiction spy thriller by Hugo Award winning writer Charles Stross, the Laundry - the British secret agency that fights supernatural threats - must team up with the police force, with one unfortunate secret agent caught in the middle.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ace Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0425281175
• ISBN 13: 9780425281178
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 401