*βA bizarre yet effective yoking of the spy and horror genres.β βThe Washington Post Book World *
The Lovecraftian Singularity has descended upon the world in The Labyrinth Index , beginning an exciting new story arc in Charles Stross' Hugo Award-winning Laundry Files series!
Since she was promoted to the head of the Lords Select Committee on Sanguinary Affairs, every workday for Mhari Murphy has been a nightmare. It doesnβt help that her boss, the new Prime Minister of Britain, is a manipulative and deceptive pain in the butt. But what else can she expect when working under the thumb of none other than the elder god Nβyar Lat-Hotep a.k.a the Creeping Chaos?
Mhari's most recent assignment takes her and a ragtag team of former Laundry agents across the pond into the depths of North America. The United States president has gone missing. Not that Americans are alarmed. For some mysterious reason, most of the country has forgotten the executive branch even exists. Perhaps it has to do with the NazgΓ»l currently occupying the government and attempting to summon Cthulhu.
It's now up to Mhari and her team to race against the NazgΓ»l's vampire-manned dragnet to find and, for his own protection, kidnap the president.
Who knew an egomaniacal, malevolent deity would have a soft spot for international relations?
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Review
βStross still spins a heck of a yarn.β β Kirkus Reviews on The Delirium Brief
"Gaudy and gory....This is Stross in one of his darker moods....The political side of the book...signals some of the real-world anxieties that stand behind the entire series." β Locus on The Delirium Brief
βA fast-paced blend of espionage thrills, mundane office comedy and Lovecraftian horror.β βSFX on The Rhesus Chart
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βAlternately chilling and hilarious.β β_ Publishers Weekly_ on The Jennifer Morgue
βCombines a le CarrΓ©-style espionage thriller with Lovecraftian horror to great effect.β β The Guardian on The Fuller Memorandum
βSmart, literate, funny.ββLev Grossman, author of The Magicians
βA bizarre yet effective yoking of the spy and horror genres.ββ The Washington Post Book World
βImagine 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.β β Booklist on The Fuller Memorandum
About the Author
CHARLES STROSS is a British SF writer, born in Leeds, England, and living in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has worked as a tech writer, a programmer, a journalist, and a pharmacist; he holds degrees in pharmacy and in computer science. He has won three Hugo Awards for his short fiction, including in 2014 for Equoid , a Laundry Files novella originally published on Tor.com.