When magic and superpowers emerge in the masses, Wendy Deere is
contracted by the government to bag and snag supervillains in Hugo
Award-winning author Charles Stross' Dead Lies Dreaming: A Laundry
Files Novel.
As Wendy hunts down Imp--the cyberpunk head of a band calling themselves
"The Lost Boys"-- she is dragged into the schemes of louche billionaire
Rupert de Montfort Bigge. Rupert has discovered that the sole surviving
copy of the long-lost concordance to the one true Necronomicon is up
for underground auction in London. He hires Imp's sister, Eve, to
procure it by any means necessary, and in the process, he encounters
Wendy Deere.
In a tale of corruption, assassination, thievery, and magic, Wendy Deere
must navigate rotting mansions that lead to distant pasts, evil tycoons,
corrupt government officials, lethal curses, and her own moral qualms in
order to make it out of this chase alive.