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The Atrocity Archives: Book 1 in The Laundry Files

78 Ratings

4.2

Series

1 of 13

Duration
10H 57min
Language
English
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Category

Fantasy

Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. None of them receive any thanks for the jobs they do, but at least a techie doesn't risk getting shot or eaten in the line of duty. Bob's world is dull but safe, and that's the way it should have stayed; but then he went and got Noticed.

Now, Bob Howard is up to his neck in spycraft, alternative universes, dimension-hopping Nazis, Middle Eastern terrorists, damsels in distress, ancient Lovecraftian horror and the end of the world.

Only one thing is certain: it will take more than control+alt+delete to sort this mess out...

© 2013 Little, Brown Book Group (Audiobook): 9781405526043

Release date

Audiobook: 11 July 2013

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