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The Jennifer Morgue
Laundry Files (Related to this series)
- Author
- Charles Stross
- Narrator
- Jack Hawkins
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 11 July 2013
- Run Time
- 12 hours 30 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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Brilliantly disturbing and funny at the same time
Ben Aaronovitch, author of RIVERS OF LONDON
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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
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Stross at the top of his game - which is to say, few do it better
KIRKUS
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Alternately chilling and hilarious
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Ferociously enjoyable
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Details
- Author
- Charles Stross
- Narrator
- Jack Hawkins
- Duration
- 12 hours 30 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 July 2013
- ISBN
- 9781405526050
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Espionage and spy thriller, Science fiction
Synopsis
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.
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