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| − | <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">Stross's third Laundry novel (after 2006's The Jennifer Morgue) is set </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">roughly eight years after The Atrocity Archives. It continues to describe the Kafkaesque absurdity of government bureaucracies, but the tone turns dark when series hero Bob Howard accidentally kills a civilian during a routine exorcism. Bob soon discovers that there's a mole loose in the Laundry, the ultrasecret British intelligence service that deals with the implications of magic being a branch of pure mathematics. At issue is a memo by the Laundry's founder that relates to something called the Eater of Souls. The only person who knows anything about this is Bob's enigmatic boss, Angleton, but when he inexplicably vanishes, Bob and his wife and fellow agent, |
+ | <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">Stross's third Laundry novel (after 2006's [[The Jennifer Morgue]] ) is set </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">roughly eight years after [[The Atrocity Archives]] . It continues to describe the Kafkaesque absurdity of government bureaucracies, but the tone turns dark when series hero [[Bob Howard]] accidentally kills a civilian during a routine exorcism. Bob soon discovers that there's a mole loose in the Laundry, the ultrasecret British intelligence service that deals with the implications of magic being a branch of pure mathematics. At issue is a memo by the Laundry's founder that relates to something called the Eater of Souls. The only person who knows anything about this is Bob's enigmatic boss, [[James Angleton|Angleton]] , but when he inexplicably vanishes, Bob and his wife and fellow agent, Dominique, are left on their own to stop [[CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN]] : the end of the world. The satisfying ending should appeal to fans of gory horror while making them question the definition of humanity. </span> |
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| Author | Charles Stross |
| Publication date | July, 2010 |
| Published by | Ace |
| ISBN | 0-441-01867-X |
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| Preceded by The Jennifer Morgue (novel) |
Followed by The Apocalypse Codex |
The Fuller Memorandum is the third novel by Charles Stross in his "Laundry" series of Lovecraftian spy thrillers.
Where The Atrocity Archives was written in the idiom of Len Deighton and The Jennifer Morgue was a pastiche of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, The Fuller Memorandum is a homage of sorts to Anthony Price's Dr David Audley/Colonel Jack Butler series of spy thrillers, and features two minor characters named Roskill and Panin, names which appeared as recurring characters in Price's series.
Plot
Stross's third Laundry novel (after 2006's The Jennifer Morgue ) is set roughly eight years after The Atrocity Archives . It continues to describe the Kafkaesque absurdity of government bureaucracies, but the tone turns dark when series hero Bob Howard accidentally kills a civilian during a routine exorcism. Bob soon discovers that there's a mole loose in the Laundry, the ultrasecret British intelligence service that deals with the implications of magic being a branch of pure mathematics. At issue is a memo by the Laundry's founder that relates to something called the Eater of Souls. The only person who knows anything about this is Bob's enigmatic boss, Angleton , but when he inexplicably vanishes, Bob and his wife and fellow agent, Dominique, are left on their own to stop CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN : the end of the world. The satisfying ending should appeal to fans of gory horror while making them question the definition of humanity.