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  • Written by: Charles Stross
  • Narrated by: Elle Newlands
  • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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The Annihilation Score

Written by: Charles Stross
Narrated by: Elle Newlands
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Publisher's Summary

Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross presents the next case in The Laundry Files. Dominique O'Brien - her friends call her Mo - lives a curious double life with her husband, Bob Howard. To the average civilian, they're boring middle-aged civil servants. But within the labyrinthian secret circles of Her Majesty's government, they're operatives working for the nation's occult security service known as the Laundry, charged with defending Britain against dark supernatural forces threatening humanity.

Mo's latest assignment is assisting the police in containing an unusual outbreak: ordinary citizens suddenly imbued with extraordinary abilities of the superpowered kind. Unfortunately these people prefer playing superpranks instead of superheroics. The mayor of London being levitated by a dumpy man in Trafalgar Square would normally be a source of shared amusement for Mo and Bob, but they're currently separated because something's come between them - something evil. An antique violin, an Erich Zann original, made of human white bone, was designed to produce music capable of slaughtering demons. Mo is the custodian of this unholy instrument. It invades her dreams and yearns for the blood of her colleagues - and her husband. And despite Mo's proficiency as a world-class violinist, it cannot be controlled....

©2015 Charles Stross (P)2015 Recorded Books

What the critics say

"A weirdly alluring blend of super-spy thriller, deadpan comic fantasy, and Lovecraftian horror." ( Kirkus Reviews)

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Missing Bob

Love the performance, but i find MO character extremely unlikable. Loosing Bob as the protagonist was a mistake. This book is where laundry files series ended for me and many others.

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I liked getting to know Mo

Not everyone liked this book but I did. Maybe it’s because I’m a older, corporate woman. I thought Mo was well portrayed. She’s dealing with her husbands ex’s, stale marriage and career changes she did not ask for all set in the Laundry’s world. I like her guts, determination and self understanding.

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