Laundry Files
Ace
July 2016
On Sale: June 28, 2016
Featuring: Alex Schwartz; Cassie Brewer
400 pages ISBN: 0425281191 EAN: 9780425281192 Kindle: B016JPTNZW Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
The Laundry Filesβ βfast-paced blend of espionage thrills, mundane office comedy and Lovecraftian horrorβ (SFX) continues as Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross assigns a day trader to a permanent position on the night shift...
After stumbling upon the algorithm that turned him and his fellow merchant bankers into vampires, Alex Schwartz was drafted by The Laundry, Britainβs secret counter-occult agency thatβs humanityβs first line of defense against the forces of darkness. Dependent on his new employers for his continued existenceβas Alex has no stomach for predatory bloodsuckingβhe has little choice but to accept his new role as an operative-in-training.
Dispatched to Leeds, Alexβs first assignment is to help assess the costs of renovating a 1950s Cold War bunker into The Laundryβs new headquarters. Unfortunately, Leeds is Alexβs hometown, and the thought of breaking the news to his parents that heβs left banking for civil service, while hiding his undead condition, is causing more anxiety than learning how to live as a vampire secret agent preparing to confront multiple apocalypses.
Alexβs only saving grace is Cassie Brewer, a drama student appearing in the local Goth Festival who is inexplicably attracted to him despite his awkward personality and massive amounts of sunblock.
But Cassie has secrets of her ownβsecrets that make Alexβs night life behaviors seem positively normal...
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