The Rhesus Chart

The Rhesus Chart A Laundry Files Novel

'Brilliantly disturbing and funny at the same time' -Ben Aaronovitch (author of RIVERS OF LONDON) The fifth Laundry Files novel by Charles Stross, but also a jumping-on point for readers new to the series, The Rhesus Chart sees hacker and supernatural spy Bob Howard take on the (literal) bloodsuckers running London's financial district. 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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Gavin@gl
2 stars
Mar 9, 2023

Brave, for a writer of taste to write a vampire book, these days. But then in a sense Stross doesn’t give a shit, since he has written a vampire book in which the vampires are literally high-frequency investment bankers who become vampires literally because of high-frequency investment banking. Then there’s his occult computer science (“Magic is a side-effect of certain classes of mathematics… Sensible magicians use computers.”). Stross is the only writer I know who depicts the corporate/bureaucratic way of life, as well as just its deadening language. Millions of people now spend much of their lives within a structure encouraging this mindset; we need art that knows its vagaries and petty circumlocutions and administrivia. So, extra half-point for detailed solidarity with the office drone. And the TVTropes reference.

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Ben Nathan@benreadssff
4 stars
Sep 15, 2021

That was fun. Pretty much all you need to know

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Matthew Royal@masyukun
3 stars
Feb 13, 2023
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Laura@lauragh
4 stars
Nov 1, 2022
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Arron Kau@arronkau
3 stars
Aug 15, 2022
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Allie Herrington@rrstar
3 stars
Aug 9, 2022
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Kilian Rüth@kalle
4 stars
Jun 9, 2022
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Peter Tving@tving
4 stars
Feb 19, 2022
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Joseph Aleo@josephaleo
4 stars
Sep 23, 2021

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