The Laundry Files' "fast-paced blend of espionage thrills, mundane office comedy and Lovecraftian horror" ( SFX ) continues as Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross assigns a day trader to a permanent position on the night shift... After stumbling upon the algorithm that turned him and his fellow merchant bankers into vampires, Alex Schwartz was drafted by the Laundry, Britain's secret counter-occult agency that's humanity's first line of defense...