SOLVED. London Eye secret office and some demons? [s]

[CC]

I cannot recall much about the 3(?) books, I picked them up from the library a few years back (2004-2006?) and have never found them since. The main setting was in London and perhaps other parts of England. The author was male, also maybe British and the main character was a 20-30 something male, very passive and a bit of a sissy at first and maybe worked as some form of an office clerk. Main character was father was missing and involved in some shady clandestine government work. There were demons and perhaps magical shenanigans going on and definitely something involving binding a female or demon to a chair by his missing father early on in the story.
Some of the other main points I can remember is that there is a secret office in the London Eye ferries wheel, a band that perhaps killing or hurting children (not to sure on that one) and a leviathan in the last book. The writing was a bit funny, in the air of Neal Gaimen-ish “I am a bumbling incompetent chap but my character will provide some witty dialogue (think Good Omens...) and it was defiantly not a YA book. I can not find the books anywhere and have only received blank looks when I try to ask others.
Oh and one of the book covers might have had some black/white/grey images of London, maybe with the ferries wheel also and the books are for sure not the Bartimaeus Trilogy.

[LauraW]

Did it include an autistic boy?

[Andy]

Could be something by Tom Holt - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[CC]

LauraW wrote: "Did it include an autistic boy?"
I don't remember any of the other characters very well. There was a female who became love interest maybe?

[CC]

Andy wrote: "Could be something by Tom Holt - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."

No not Tom Holt for sure. Writing was more graphic than he tends to be and not as silly.

[Lou]

What about this?
The Devil You Know

[Fresno Bob]

Are they part of the Charles Stross "Laundry" series

[CC]

The Laundry series seems like a very strong chance of being the book but I am having trouble finding a good plot synopsis online. I am going to try to find at the local library.

[Sue]

fantasticfiction.co.uk has some good plot synopses, but I don't know the books.

[Sneha]

Aaronovitch or Tom Pollock?

[Kris]

The Domino Men by Jonathan Barnes? Here's the description from Amazon:
"

In an earlier century, Queen Victoria made a Faustian bargain, signing London and all its souls away to a nefarious, inhuman entity. Now, generations later, the bill has finally come due. . . .

An amiable, unambitious London file clerk, Henry Lamb leads an unremarkable life—until the day he learns he's expected to assume the covert responsibilities of his universally despised, now comatose grandfather. London is at war, and a shadowy organization known (to a very few) as the Directorate wishes to recruit Henry to the cause. All he has to do is find "the girl," save the world from the monster Leviathan, and defeat the unspeakable evil lurking in the cellar of 10 Downing Street: the serial-slaying schoolboy twins known as the Domino Men."

A review on another site mentions: "Henry is bewildered with what is going on as he meets the Directorate chief in the London Eye ferris wheel..."

[CC]

Yes! Yay! Bravo! Thanks for your help ( I didn't see the same summery on Amazon so thanks for that also) totally the books i couldn't find :)

[Kris]

Glad we could help. :)

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Congrats CC. I'll move this down to Solved for you and shelve the book.