The Delirium Brief
A Laundry Files Novel
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Publisher Description
*2018 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL CATEGORY*
“Smart, literate, funny.” —Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians
Someone is dead set to air the spy agency’s dirty laundry in The Delirium Brief, the next installment to Charles Stross’ Hugo Award-winning comedic dark fantasy Laundry Files series!
Bob Howard’s career in the Laundry, the secret British government agency dedicated to protecting the world from unspeakable horrors from beyond spacetime, has entailed high combat, brilliant hacking, ancient magic, and combat with indescribably repellent creatures of pure evil. It has also involved a wearying amount of paperwork and office politics, and his expense reports are still a mess.
Now, following the invasion of Yorkshire by the Host of Air and Darkness, the Laundry’s existence has become public, and Bob is being trotted out on TV to answer pointed questions about elven asylum seekers. What neither Bob nor his managers have foreseen is that their organization has earned the attention of a horror far more terrifying than any demon: a British government looking for public services to privatize.
Inch by inch, Bob Howard and his managers are forced to consider the truly unthinkable: a coup against the British government itself.
Laundry Files
1. The Atrocity Archives
2. The Jennifer Morgue
3. The Fuller Memorandum
4. The Apocalypse Codex
5. The Rhesus Chart
6. The Annihilation Score
7. The Nightmare Stacks
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Customer Reviews
Preventing a Hostile Takeover in the Laundryverse!
“The Delirium Brief” is a novel by Charles Stross which is set in his Laundry Series. The events of this novel occur right after Bob Howard’s return from Japan where the events of the “Escape from Puroland” novella occurred. Goodreads identifies it as number eight in the Laundry Series. It’s a part of the the main narrative, and critical to the overall story.
In this novel Bob Howard returns from Japan to find he’s now management-level and is involved in the highest level operations of the Laundry. Unfortunately, this comes just as the Laundry and the United Kingdom itself come under threat of a hostile takeover. A agent from one of the supernatural agencies located in the United States gives them a last minute warning, then they suddenly come under attack. Will Bob and the Auditors be able to to rescue the Laundry and the Country from the forces of darkness?
This Laundry novel has its share of the dry dark humor that is characteristic of the series. In this story, Bob is placed in a position of higher authority. He also begins reconciliation with his estranged wife Mo, who is now an Auditor herself. This novel does an admirable job of tying together the threads of various previous novels into the narrative. It ends with what appears to be the beginning of the events that lead to the “New Management” portion of the Laundry series. The next novel in the Laundry Series is “The Labyrinth Index.”