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The Rhesus Chart
The Rhesus Chart: A Laundry Files novel | Charles Stross
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LONDON CAN DRAIN THE LIFE OUT OF YOU . . . Bob 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. There'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. But 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.
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It‘s vampires this time. Mathematically powered vampires. Obviously 😂.

Starts fast, a tad sluggish in the middle, ends with a bang—it‘s as if you put two separate stories together, inciting incidents and all. That‘s a little annoying as you‘re reading it, and I had to put it down for a while, but it works in the end. Two books in one, kind of?

3.75/5

rwmg Sounds intriguing enough for me to wishlist the first in the series 1y
eol @rwmg try one of the short stories first. (At least one of them is available on tor.com for free I think?) That's what I did. They're pretty much standalone, and will give you a sample of what you can expect. This series is pretty unique in that it mixed urban fantasy, lovecraftian cosmic horror (and it gets really dark and explicit in places) , comedy, geek references, and mundanities of corporate life. 1y
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