The Jennifer Morgue A laundry file novel

I’ve been working for the laundry for about five years now - long enough to get used to the petty insults, the paper clip audits, the disgusting coffee, and the endless unavoidable bureaucracy. Periodically, I become blasé in my cynicism, sure that I’ve seen it all - which is usually the signal for… Bob Howard, computer übergeek and demonology hacker extraordinaire, has a problem. Software billionaire Ellis Billington has managed to get his hands on a Soviet Cold War device that permits communication with the dead. He plans to use it to raise an eldritch horror, code named ‘Jennifer Morgue’ from the Stygian depths, with an eye to ruling the world. Bob’s mission, should he close to accept it (or not) is simple: stop the bad guy, save the world and emerge - shaken, perhaps, but not stirred. And he can be confident that his superiors at the laundry will do everything in their power to get him out alive. After all someone has to do the paperwork…