The Nightmare Stacks (Laundry Files, #7)

by Charles Stross

I’ve been part of the Laundry for nearly six months now, and I still don’t have a clue what I’m meant to be doing, but I’m told this is entirely normal and I’ll figure it out sooner or later if I live long enough.

“But you’ve got to learn to think like a state if you work in the Civil Service.

Organizations are not human beings and they don’t obey the same priorities. They’re hives.

Hives run on emergent consensus and policy.