Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross presents another case in The Laundry Documents, ‘a weirdly alluring mixture of super-spy thriller, deadpan comic dream, and Lovecraftian horror’ (Kirkus Reviews). Dominique O’Brien-her friends call her Mo-lives a wondering double lifestyle with her hubby, Bob Howard. To the common civilian, they’re boring middle-aged civil servants. But inside the labyrinthian top secret circles of Her Majesty’s government, they’re operatives doing work for the country’s occult about The Annihilation Rating security service referred to as the Laundry, charged with defending Britain against dark supernatural forces threatening mankind. Mo’s latest assignment is assisting the authorities in containing a unique outbreak: ordinary residents all of a sudden imbued with extraordinary abilities from the super-powered kind. Sadly these people choose playing super-pranks instead of super-heroics. The Mayor of London becoming levitated with a dumpy guy in Trafalgar Square would normally be considered a source of shared enjoyment for Mo and Bob, but they’re currently separated because something’s come between them-something wicked. An old-fashioned violin, an Erich Zann unique, made of human white bone tissue, was made to make music with the capacity of slaughtering demons. Mo may be the custodian of the unholy device. It invades her dreams and yearns for the bloodstream of her colleagues-and her hubby. And despite Mo’s effectiveness as a global course violinist, it cannot be controlled.