The annihilation score

404 pages

English language

Published 2015 by Orbit.

ISBN:
978-0-356-50531-2
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OCLC Number:
908913117

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4 stars (1 review)

NOBODY DOES IT BETTER ... Dr Mo O'Brien is an intelligence agent at 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. But the Laundry is recovering from a devastating attack and when average citizens all over the country start to develop supernatural powers, the police are called in to help. Mo is appointed as official police liaison, but in between dealing with police bureaucracy, superpowered members of the public and disgruntled politicians, Mo discovers to her horror that she can no longer rely on her marriage, nor on the weapon that has been at her side for eight years of undercover work, the possessed violin known as 'Lecter'. If this wasn't bad enough, a mysterious figure known as Dr Freudstein is committing heists and sending increasingly threatening messages to the …

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Review of 'The annihilation score' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

I really enjoy Charles Stross Laundry series where horrific monsters meet horrific bureaucracy.

This one culminates at the Last Night at the Proms - an added bonus for a brass band player like me.

I do have to report that the cat in this story does not talk. I'm not sure why not because Mr. Stross can definitely write good talking cat stories. It seems like he just doesn't want to. Kind of like his dumb reasons for not writing a sequel to Iron Sunrise.

Subjects

  • Intelligence service
  • Bob Howard (Fictitious character)
  • Husband and wife
  • Women violinists
  • Demonology
  • Fiction

Places

  • Great Britain