The Annihilation Score - (Laundry Files Novel) by Charles Stross (Paperback)

About the Book

"Mo's latest assignment is to assist the police in containing an unusual outbreak: ordinary citizens suddenly imbued with extraordinary abilities of the superpowered kind. Unfortunately these people prefer playing super-pranks instead of performing super-heroics"--

Book Synopsis

From the Hugo Award-winning author of The Rhesus Chart comes another supernatural case from The Laundry Files...

Dominique O'Brien--her friends call her Mo--lives a curious double life with her husband, Bob Howard. To the average civilian, they're boring middle-aged civil servants. But within the labyrinthine secret circles of Her Majesty's Government, they're operatives working for the nation's occult security service known as the Laundry, charged with defending Britain against dark supernatural forces threatening humanity.

Unfortunately, one of those supernatural threats has come between Mo and Bob. An antique violin, an Erich Zahn original, made of white human bone, was designed to produce music capable of slaughtering demons. Mo is the custodian of this unholy instrument. It invades her dreams and yearns for the blood of her colleagues--and her husband. And despite Mo's proficiency as a world-class violinist, it cannot be controlled...

Review Quotes

"Charles Stross is awesome and his books are awesome and his Laundry Files series in particular is a hell of a lot of fun."--John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author of The End of All Things

"Thumbs up for a smart and engaging novel that continues a very smart and engaging series. Highly recommended."--Tor.com

"A quirky, hysterical and cerebral thriller that is practically impossible to put down."--CK2's Kwips and Kritiques

About the Author

Charles Stross, born in 1964, is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the author of seven Hugo-nominated novels, including Accelerando, Neptune's Brood, Saturn's Children and The Laundry Files series, and winner of three Hugo Awards for best novella. Stross has had his work translated into more than twelve languages. He has worked as a pharmacist, software developer, and tech-industry journalist.