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core novel 2014 The Laundry Files
Record
| First published | 2014 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.19 (9,618 ratings, collected 2026-10-28) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780425256862 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
A group of young bankers stumbles on an algorithm that turns them into vampires, and the Laundry, which officially insists that vampires do not exist, has to deal with the consequences. Bob Howard's investigation is hampered by the strange reluctance of everyone around him, his own colleagues included, to take the possibility seriously. The reason turns out to be that elder vampires have been quietly influencing the agency's staff for years. The new vampires end up joining the Laundry and the two elders are destroyed, but the victory costs the life of Bob's mentor, James Angleton.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Laundry Files
- Series: The Laundry Files core; position 5 of 15 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Charles Stross
Notes
- From the series record (The Laundry Files): The main sequence about the Laundry, Britain's secret occult intelligence agency, from Bob Howard's first field mission to the agency's end.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Laundry Files: position 8 of 15: previous Equoid (2013) · next The Annihilation Score (2015)
- Internal chronology, within The Laundry Files: position 8 of 14: previous The Apocalypse Codex (2012) · next The Annihilation Score (2015)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Laundry Files
- Wikipedia: Charles Stross bibliography
- Reader ratings: Laundry Files series page
- Publishers Weekly: The Rhesus Chart (Ace, 2014)
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