A Mission of Somewhat Questionable Legality*

THE FULLER MEMORANDUM by Charles Stross (2010 Ace / 310 pp. / hc)

Stross' third Laundry novel takes a little bit to get going, but once it does it begins to deliver on a grand scale.

For newbies: The Laundry is a top secret British paranormal secret service unit. Bob Howard is under its employ as a computational demonologist . . . sort-of like a nerdy occult-savy James Bond. Along with his supernatural-violin-playing wife, Mo, Howard returns this time to what seems like an easy task: getting ...