The Laundry Documents’ ‘fast-paced blend of espionage thrills, mundane office comedy and Lovecraftian horror’ (SFX) continues as Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross assigns a day trader to a permanent position on the night shift… After stumbling upon the algorithm that transformed him and his fellow merchant bankers into vampires, Alex Schwartz was drafted by The Laundry, Britain’s key counter-occult agency that’s humanity’s 1st line of protection against the causes of darkness. Dependent on about The Nightmare Stacks his brand-new companies for his continued existence-as Alex does not have any belly for predatory bloodsucking-he provides little choice but to accept his new role as an operative-in-training. Dispatched to Leeds, Alex’s first assignment is to help measure the costs of renovating a 1950s Cool War bunker into The Laundry’s new head office. Unfortunately, Leeds is definitely Alex’s hometown, and the very thought of breaking the news to his parents that he’s still left bank for civil service, while hiding his undead condition, is usually causing more stress than learning how exactly to live like a vampire top secret agent preparing to confront multiple apocalypses. Alex’s just saving grace is normally Cassie Brewer, a drama student appearing in the neighborhood Goth Festival who’s inexplicably attracted to him despite his uncomfortable personality and substantial levels of sunblock. But Cassie offers secrets of her own-secrets that make Alex’s night life behaviors seem favorably normal…