The Nightmare Stacks
Alex Schwartz had a promising future - until he contracted an unfortunate bout of vampirism, and agreed (on pain of death) to join the Laundry, Britain's only counter-occult secret agency.His first assignment is in Leeds - his old hometown. The thought of telling his parents that he's lost his...
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Alex Schwartz had a promising future - until he contracted an unfortunate bout of vampirism, and agreed (on pain of death) to join the Laundry, Britain's only counter-occult secret agency.His first assignment is in Leeds - his old hometown. The thought of telling his parents that he's lost his old job, let alone them finding out about his 'condition', is causing Alex more
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780356505343 (0356505340)
Publisher: Orbit
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Series: Laundry Files (#7)
The gazillionth Laundry File confirms that the success of its predecessors depended heavily on the voice of Bob Howard by again not using it. Instead we get Howard-lite in the form of newbie vampire and Laundry recruit, Alex. Alex is the kind of nervous, out of his depth nerd Bob was way back in the...
The Nightmare Stacks (Laundry Files #7) by Charles Stross When Alex Schwartz took a lucrative job developing high frequency trading algorithms, he had no idea how literal his transformation into a bloodsucking vampire was going to be. In the world that Stross creates, higher mathematics open a g...
There is so much about this series that I geek out on, it's a wonderful mix of sardonic humor, tech geekery, and tentacles from beyond. "Case Nightmare Green" and "Jesus Phone" are phrases anyone hanging out with me for an extended period of time may hear. Needless to say, I was both quite excited...