The Labyrinth Index
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4.5 • 124 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“A bizarre yet effective yoking of the spy and horror genres.” —The Washington Post Book World
The Lovecraftian Singularity has descended upon the world in The Labyrinth Index, beginning an exciting new story arc in Charles Stross' Hugo Award-winning Laundry Files series!
Since she was promoted to the head of the Lords Select Committee on Sanguinary Affairs, every workday for Mhari Murphy has been a nightmare. It doesn’t help that her boss, the new Prime Minister of Britain, is a manipulative and deceptive pain in the butt. But what else can she expect when working under the thumb of none other than the elder god N’yar Lat-Hotep a.k.a the Creeping Chaos?
Mhari's most recent assignment takes her and a ragtag team of former Laundry agents across the pond into the depths of North America. The United States president has gone missing. Not that Americans are alarmed. For some mysterious reason, most of the country has forgotten the executive branch even exists. Perhaps it has to do with the Nazgûl currently occupying the government and attempting to summon Cthulhu.
It's now up to Mhari and her team to race against the Nazgûl's vampire-manned dragnet to find and, for his own protection, kidnap the president.
Who knew an egomaniacal, malevolent deity would have a soft spot for international relations?
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Customer Reviews
First Novel in the New Management Titles
“The Labyrinth Index” is a novel by Charles Stross which is set in his Laundry Series, and the the beginning of the “New Management” portion of the Laundry series. It’s a part of the main narrative, and critical to the overall story.
In this novel we follow Mhari Murphy, who is a PHANG (the Laundry term for vampire), and who has just been elevated to the Rank of Baroness by his Dread Majesty, the Prime Minister. He is sending her and a team on a covert mission to the United States where it appears an occult coup has occurred. Her mission includes locating and rescuing the President, whom no one seems to be able to remember exists…
This Laundry novel has plenty of the dry dark humor that is characteristic of the series. It does an admirable job of tying together the threads and characters of the various previous novels into the narrative. The next novel in the Laundry Series is also a New Management title, “Dead Lies Dreaming.”