Dead Lies Dreaming: Book 1 of the New Management, A new adventure begins in the world of the Laundry Files

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In a world where magic has gone mainstream, a policewoman and a group of petty criminals are pulled into a heist to find a forbidden book of spells that should never be opened.

A new adventure begins in the world of the Laundry Files.

Dead Lies Dreaming presents a nightmarish vision of a Britain 'under New Management', sliding unknowingly towards occult cataclysm . . .

'Brilliantly disturbing and funny at the same time' Ben Aaronovitch, on the Laundry Files

'Stross at the top of his game - which is to say, few do it better' Kirkus

'Ferociously enjoyable' SFX

Laundry Files series:

THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES

THE JENNIFER MORGUE

THE FULLER MEMORANDUM

THE APOCALYPSE CODEX

THE RHESUS CHART

THE ANNIHILATION SCORE

THE NIGHTMARE STACKS

THE DELIRIUM BRIEF

THE LABYRINTH INDEX

The Laundry Files: Under New Management

DEAD LIES DREAMING

Reviews

Brilliantly disturbing and funny at the same time

Charles Stross owns this field, and his vast, cool intellect has launched yet another mad, sly entertainment that will strangle the hell out of anything else on offer right now

Stross at the top of his game - which is to say, few do it better

Alternately chilling and hilarious

Ferociously enjoyable

Author Bio

Charles Stross is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author of seven Hugo-nominated novels and winner of three Hugo awards for best novella, two of which are part of the Laundry Files series, Stross's works have been translated into over twelve languages. As the owner of degrees in pharmacy and computer science, he graduated as the world's only academically qualified cyberpunk writer just as cyberpunk died. Today he describes his job as telling lies for money and tormenting his imaginary friends. Follow his blog at http://www.accelerando.org/ and his Twitter feed at @cstross