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The Labyrinth Index

Laundry Files, Book 9

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Britain is under New Management. The disbanding of the Laundry - the British espionage agency that deals with supernatural threats - has culminated in the unthinkable: an elder god in residence in 10 Downing Street.

But in true 'the enemy of my enemy' fashion, Mhari Murphy finds herself working with His Excellency Nylarlathotep on foreign policy - there are worse things, it seems, than an elder god in power, and they lie in deepest, darkest America.

A thousand-mile-wide storm system has blanketed the Midwest, and the president is nowhere to be found. Mhari must lead a task force of disgraced Laundry personnel into the storm front to discover the truth. But working for an elder god is never easy, and as the stakes rise, Mhari will soon question exactly where her loyalties really lie.

2019, Hugo Award for Best Series, Short-listed

©2018 Charles Stross Adventure Science Fiction Fiction

Critic reviews

Brilliantly disturbing and funny at the same time (Ben Aaronovitch, author of RIVERS OF LONDON)
Charles Stross owns this field, and his vast, cool intellect has launched yet another mad, sly entertainment that will strangle the hell out of anything else on offer right now (Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan)
Stross at the top of his game - which is to say, few do it better (KIRKUS)
Alternately chilling and hilarious (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY)
Ferociously enjoyable (SFX)
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I have listened to or read all of the Laundry file novels. narrator ruined this one
Real talent required to make all the male characters sound like petulant 12 year olds - not!!

I have a high tolerance but I have had to stop listening to calm down.....

Good story utterly utterly ruined by the performan

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The story is good but the narrator is absolutely appalling and actually puts you off listening to the book for more than a few minutes at a time. Also the pronunciation of the lead characters name is dreadful, you don't pronounce the 'h' in Mhairi. I find it hard to believe that the author heard and approved the narration. The voice characterisation's of the players in the story sound like broad stroke caricatures rather than well considered portrayals and the narrator is awful at doing british accents.

Appalling narrator, actually puts you off

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Story is good and interesting, as ever, but OMG, if you've never heard a british regional accent, don't try to fake one! All the male characters in particular sounded bizarre.

I assume we'll be getting a short story about how Brains got some life changing throat injury that justifies the way he speaks in this performance?

Good story, but poor performance.

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the reader was fine doing female characters but made the male characters sound ridiculous.
chapter 4 has gaps in the recording.
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poor quality recording and not a great reader

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overall I enjoyed the story. unfortunately the narrator spoiled it somewhat with poor voice acting.

not too bad but could be better

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