Book description
Bob Howard is a computer übergeek employed by the Laundry, a secret
British agency assigned to clean up incursions from other realities
caused by the inadvertent manipulation of complex mathematical
equations: in other words, magic. In 1975, the CIA used Howard Hughes's
Glomar Explorer in a bungled attempt to raise a sunken Soviet submarine
in order to access the Jennifer Morgue, an occult device that allows
communication with the dead. Now a ruthless billionaire intends to try
again, even if by doing so he awakens the Great Old Ones, who thwarted
the earlier expedition. It's up to Bob and a collection of British
eccentrics even Monty Python would consider odd to stop the bad guy and
save the world, while getting receipts for all expenditures or else face
the most dreaded menace of all: the Laundry's own auditors. Charles
Stross was born in Leeds, England, in 1964. He has worked as a
pharmacist, software engineer and freelance journalist, but now writes
full time.
