Dead Lies Dreaming - (Laundry Files) by Charles Stross (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><b>A LAUNDRY FILES NOVEL. <p/></b>In a tale of corruption, assassination, thievery, and magic, Wendy Deere must navigate rotting mansions that lead to distant pasts, evil tycoons, corrupt government officials, lethal curses, and her own moral qualms in order to make it out of this chase alive.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>When magic and superpowers emerge in the masses, Wendy Deere is contracted by the government to bag and snag supervillains in </b><b>Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross' <i>Dead Lies Dreaming: A Laundry Files Novel</i>.</b> <p/>As Wendy hunts down Imp--the cyberpunk head of a band calling themselves "The Lost Boys"-- she is dragged into the schemes of louche billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge. Rupert has discovered that the sole surviving copy of the long-lost concordance to the one true <i>Necronomicon</i> is up for underground auction in London. He hires Imp's sister, Eve, to procure it by any means necessary, and in the process, he encounters Wendy Deere. <p/>In a tale of corruption, assassination, thievery, and magic, Wendy Deere must navigate rotting mansions that lead to distant pasts, evil tycoons, corrupt government officials, lethal curses, and her own moral qualms in order to make it out of this chase alive.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>CHARLES STROSS</b> is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has won three Hugo Awards for Best Novella, including for the Laundry Files tale "Equoid." His work has been translated into over twelve languages. His Laundry Files series includes the Locus Award finalist <i>The Delirium Brief</i>. <p/>Like many writers, Stross has had a variety of careers, occupations, and job-shaped catastrophes, from pharmacist (he quit after the second police stakeout) to first code monkey on the team of a successful dot-com startup (with brilliant timing, he tried to change employers just as the bubble burst). Along the way he collected degrees in pharmacy and computer science, making him the world's first officially qualified cyberpunk writer.</p>
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