The Annihilation Score Audiobook (Free)

Hugo Award-winning writer Charles Stross presents another case in The Laundry Files, ‘a weirdly alluring mixture of super-spy thriller, deadpan comic dream, and Lovecraftian horror’ (Kirkus Testimonials). Dominique O’Brien-her close friends contact her Mo-lives a wondering double lifestyle with her spouse, Bob Howard. To the common civilian, they’re boring middle-aged civil servants. But inside the labyrinthian magic formula circles of Her Majesty’s government, they’re operatives doing work for the nation’s occult about The Annihilation Rating security service known as the Laundry, billed with defending Britain against dark supernatural forces threatening mankind. Mo’s latest task is assisting the police in containing an unusual outbreak: ordinary people instantly imbued with remarkable abilities of the super-powered kind. However these people choose playing super-pranks rather than super-heroics. The Mayor of London being levitated by a dumpy man in Trafalgar Square would normally be considered a source of distributed enjoyment for Mo and Bob, but they’re currently separated because something’s come between them-something bad. An old-fashioned violin, an Erich Zann initial, made of human white bone, was designed to make music capable of slaughtering demons. Mo is the custodian of this unholy instrument. It invades her dreams and yearns for the bloodstream of her colleagues-and her spouse. And despite Mo’s skills as a world course violinist, it cannot be controlled.