The Atrocity Archives

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Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. None of them receive any thanks for the jobs they do, but at least a techie doesn't risk getting shot or eaten in the line of duty. Bob's world is dull but safe, and that's the way it should have stayed; but then he went and got Noticed.

Now, Bob Howard is up to his neck in spycraft, alternative universes, dimension-hopping Nazis, Middle Eastern terrorists, damsels in distress, ancient Lovecraftian horror and the end of the world.

Only one thing is certain: it will take more than control+alt+delete to sort this mess out . . .

Critics Review

  • Brilliantly disturbing and funny at the same time

    Ben Aaronovitch, author of RIVERS OF LONDON

  • Charles Stross owns this field, and his vast, cool intellect has launched yet another mad, sly entertainment that will strangle the hell out of anything else on offer right now

    Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan

  • Stross at the top of his game – which is to say, few do it better

    KIRKUS

  • Alternately chilling and hilarious

    PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

  • Ferociously enjoyable

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