The Annihilation Score cover art

The Annihilation Score

A Laundry Files Novel

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Unlimited access to our all-you-can-listen catalogue of 15K+ audiobooks and podcasts
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

The Annihilation Score

By: Charles Stross
Narrated by: Carolina Guthrie
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

About this listen

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?

©2015 Charles Stross (P)2016 Hachette Audio Espionage Science Fiction Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Fiction
All stars
Most relevant
it would've been nice if the narrator had checked the in-universe pronunciation of some words

Pronunciation

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I love all of these books but the narration of this one is terrible Ihad to skip half of the book and move on to the next.

Dreadful narrator

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Story good but a few too many long descriptions of police/management procedures. Narrator good when she stuck to her own accent. Other accents ranged from middling to so awful it was painful to listen to!

Good but not the best in series

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This is the continuation of the Laundry Files, only this time it's from the female perspective as Mo.
The story is great as usual, however I found it slow for the first few hours.
The ending was great, dramatic with several reveals.

Onwards and upwards, continues the story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Whilst I enjoyed the story, I missed Bob, narrator has a great voice for Moe, but not so much the other characters, especially the male voices. They all sounded like prepubescent boys.

Great narrator for Mo, not so much for other characters

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews