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Loading... The Fuller Memorandum (A Laundry Files Novel) (edition 2010)by Charles Stross
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The beginning of this book suggests much more brutality than Stross is willing to do to his characters. Pity, it could have been an excellent book... This way, it's the same Laundry-lemonade as the rest of them. ( ) The continuing adventures of Bob Howard, IT Specialist and field agent for the British Secret Service section dealing in the occult. This time around there’s some very cultish behaviour for Bb & the gang to deal with and we get to to learn some back-story to a supporting character as well as Mo’s violin. Get the feeling there’s going to be some fallout from this instalment further along in the series. (Take 2, the internet ate my first review) This is another solid entry in the Laundry Files and perhaps my favorite yet. We're really starting to get into some of the more horrific corners of the world. In particular, we learn a bit more about Mo's violin; we get another glimpse into a far flung world On the down side, Bob and Mo continue to have to do some fairly terrible things. There's some fallout from that in this book, but I feel like they just sort of skate by it without really dealing with what's going on. That's either going to come up in a later book or it's going to continue to get weirder when it doesn't. The writing still pulls you along kicking and screaming. From the halfway point on, and in particular the ending, I couldn't put it down. There are more odd first/third person switches (Bob speaks in first person, everyone else is third person) and in particular a few chapters where I assume the intention is to hide exactly who is speaking. All together, it requires a bit more mental bandwidth to read than the previous two, but it's still worth it. Looking forward, there are still two novels with Bob as the main character. There are a few things that I really want to see. Fingers crossed. Belongs to SeriesThe Laundry (3) Has as a commentary on the textAwardsDistinctions
While recovering a missing top secret dossier that his boss is accused of stealing, British super spy Bob Howard must safely navigate Russian agents, ancient demons, and an undead entity called the Eater of Souls. No library descriptions found. |
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