The Annihilation Score

A Laundry Files Novel

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 police. Who is Freudstein, and what is he planning?

©2015 Charles Stross (P)2016 Hachette Audio

Beware the eater of dialect and accent

Atrocious reading. Attempts at ethnic dialect and regional british accent are pathetic. Other than that attempts to distinguish other characters with accents of class or social position are simply childish. I like the story and the author but the narrator should be subject to a geas of silence!

Unlistenable tedious woke garbage

The narration is good and the concept is interesting. So why a good author insists on filling his story with woke bullshit that drags you out of the story is beyond me.