A unique blend of espionage thrills and Lovecraftian horror, Hugo
Award-winning author Charles Stross's Laundry Files continues with
Quantum of Nightmares.
It's a brave new Britain under the New Management. The avuncular Prime
Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is
plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And
everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which
they can control, and some, not so much.
Hyperorganized and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche
magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a
supernatural duel to the death. Now she's in charge of the Bigge
Corporation--just in time to discover the lethal trap Rupert set for her
long ago.
Wendy Deere's transhuman abilities have gotten her through many a
scrape. Now she's gainfully employed investigating unauthorized
supernatural shenanigans. She swore to herself she wouldn't again get
entangled with Eve Starkey's bohemian brother Imp and his crew of
transhuman misfits. Yeah, right.
Mary Macandless has powers of her own. Right now she's pretending to be
a nanny in order to kidnap the children of a pair of famous,
Government-authorized superheroes. These children have powers of their
own, and Mary Macandless is in way over her head.
Amanda Sullivan is the HR manager of a minor grocery chain, much
oppressed by her glossy blonde boss--who is cooking up an appalling,
extralegal scheme literally involving human flesh.
All of these stories will come together, with world-bending results...
"For all of Stross's genuine ability to spook and dismay, The Laundry
Files are some of the most tremendously humane books I've ever
read."
--Tamsyn Muir, author of Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth
