The annihilation score

404 pages

English language

Published 2015 by Orbit.

ISBN:: 978-0-356-50531-2
OCLC Number:: 908913117

(1 review)

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 …

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?

5 editions

boum reviewed The annihilation score by Charles Stross (Laundry files novel -- [6])

nice laundry title in the series

4 stars

(still don't know if i'm going to keep goodreads ratings, but globally “i really liked it”)

impossible to miss the narrator change from Bob to Mo. of course, all the compsci nerdiness is gone. i was not sure i was getting all the nerd jokes anyway

i wasn't completely surprised by the plot resolution but it was nicely brought. anyway i prefer obvious ending well written than some deus-ex-lapina out of a hat to try to woo the reader

Subjects

Intelligence service
Bob Howard (Fictitious character)
Husband and wife
Women violinists
Demonology
Fiction

Places

Great Britain