The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files, #3)

by Charles Stross

But it all blurs, when you’re in pain.

There are as many species of cultists as there are dark entities for them to wank over.

Poor little misunderstood mass murderers, with only the best of intentions at heart.

The Blood Libel is a whisper that says that the strangers sacrifice babies and drink their blood.

a professional, in other words—and when he kills someone professionally he expects them to stay dead.

These walking abominations are an insult to his competence.

A pair of troops step forward, holding heavily customized cattle prods before them—electrical shock-rods, customized with signal generators to loosen the grip of extradimensional horrors on their walking hosts.