β Scribed by Charles Stross
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
For outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to management within the Laundry, the supersecret British government agency tasked with defending the realm from occult threats. Assigned to External Assets, Bob discovers the company (unofficially) employs freelance agents to deal with sensitive situations that may embarrass Queen and Country. So when Ray Schillerβan American televangelist with the uncanny ability to miraculously heal the illβbecomes uncomfortably close to the Prime Minister, External Assets dispatches the brilliant, beautiful, and entirely unpredictable Persephone Hazard to infiltrate the Golden Promise Ministries and discover why the preacher is so interested in British politics. And itβs Bobβs job to make sure Persephone doesnβt cause an international incident. But itβs a supernatural incident that Bob needs to worry aboutβa global threat even the Laundry may be unable to clean upβ¦
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For outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to management within the Laundry, the supersecret British government agency tasked with defending the realm from occult threats. Assigned to External Assets, Bob discovers
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Epigraph -- Table of Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 -- SENTIENT VEGETABLE CLAIMS END IS NEAR! -- NOTES -- 2 -- BLUE-FOOTED BOOBIES AND OTHER WITNESSES TO THE END -- NOTES -- 3 -- A TORTURED STATE OF MIND -- NOTES -- 4 -- APOCALYPSE RELOADED -- NOTES
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