{"product_id":"the-rhesus-chart-a-laundry-files-novel-1","title":"The Rhesus Chart: A Laundry Files novel","description":"Book Description\n\nThe fifth Laundry Files novel by Charles Stross, and a jumping-on point for readers new to the series, The Rhesus Chart sees hacker and supernatural spy Bob Howard take on the (literal) bloodsuckers running London's financial district. Now out in paperback!\n\nProduct Description\n\nLONDON CAN DRAIN THE LIFE OUT OF YOU . . .\n\nBob Howard is an intelligence agent working his way through the ranks of the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'. When occult powers threaten the realm, they'll be there to clean up the mess - and deal with the witnesses.\n\nThere's one kind of threat that the Laundry has never come across in its many decades, and that's vampires. Mention them to a seasoned agent and you'll be laughed out of the room.\n\nBut when a small team of investment bankers at one of Canary Wharf's most distinguished financial institutions discovers an arcane algorithm that leaves them fearing daylight and craving O positive, someone doesn't want the Laundry to know. And Bob gets caught right in the middle.\n\nReview\n\nBrilliantly disturbing and funny at the same time -- Ben Aaronovitch, author of RIVERS OF LONDON\n\nCharles Stross owns this field, and his vast, cool intellect has launched yet another mad, sly entertainment that will strangle the hell out of anything else on offer right now -- Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan\n\nStross at the top of his game - which is to say, few do it better -- KIRKUS\n\nAlternately chilling and hilarious -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n\nFerociously enjoyable -- SFX\n\nAbout the Author\n\nCharles Stross is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author of seven Hugo-nominated novels and winner of three Hugo awards for best novella, two of which are part of the Laundry Files series, Stross's works have been translated into over twelve languages. As the owner of degrees in pharmacy and computer science, he graduated as the world's only academically qualified cyberpunk writer just as cyberpunk died. Today he describes his job as telling lies for money and tormenting his imaginary friends. Follow his blog at http:\/\/www.accelerando.org\/ and his Twitter feed at @cstross.","brand":"Orbit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40281489670229,"sku":"9780356502526N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/da1f25f8-1534-4a48-9ed0-04323e187afc.jpg?v=1662363782","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-rhesus-chart-a-laundry-files-novel-1","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}