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The Delirium Brief

By: Charles Stross
Narrated by: Jack Hawkins
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Shortlisted for the Locus Award 2018.

Bob Howard's career in the Laundry, the secret British government agency dedicated to protecting the world from the supernatural, has involved brilliant hacking, ancient magic and combat with creatures of pure evil.

Now the Laundry's existence has become public, and Bob is being trotted out on TV to answer pointed questions about eleven asylum seekers. What neither Bob nor his managers have foreseen is that their organisation has earned the attention of a horror far more terrifying than any demon: a government looking for public services to privatise. There are things in the Laundry's assets that big business would simply love to get its hands on....

Inch by inch, Bob Howard and his managers are forced to consider the truly unthinkable: a coup against the British government itself.

Previous titles in this series:

The Atrocity Archives

The Jennifer Morgue

The Fuller Memorandum

The Apocalypse Codex

The Rhesus Chart

The Annihilation Score

The Nightmare Stacks

©2017 Charles Stross (P)2017 Little Brown Book Group

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"Brilliantly disturbing and funny at the same time." (Ben Aaronovitch)

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A very good entry in stross’s bouquet. If I had to pick a flaw it’s that the ending is a bit abrupt

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