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Dead Lies Dreaming

The New Management, Book 1

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Dead Lies Dreaming

By: Charles Stross
Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
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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 sliding unknowingly towards occult cataclysm....

©2020 Charles Stross (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK Adventure Fantasy Humorous Science Fiction Fiction Comedy Scary Crime
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Brilliant. Beautifully constructed,funny, thought provoking & gripping plot. Amazed by the excellent conclusion. More please!

Life under the new management

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Okay, first of all I've religiously collected every single one of the books in the Laundry Files series and I never thought I'd like any characters more than Robert (Bob) Howard. Well how wrong I was!

This book, the first in a planned series in the Laundry Files universe, features a story that is both compelling, amusing, and disturbing in equal amounts, with characters that bring the story to life.

Another superb adventure set in the Laundry Files

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Story was slow to start and not as engaging narration as previous books, but OK otherwise.

Not as good as the earlier Laundry Files

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I have been eagerly awaiting this release for some times. I love the Laundry files and have been interested to see how the world spans out. This didn't disappoint. All the characters are new which at first put me off. However I think by using new characters it gave a compelling twist on the world building. As usual Stross shows us this fantastical world through the eyes of people with quite ordinary wants and desires. I hope this isn't the last book in the Laundry files as I'm desperate to hear more.

A good follow up on the Laundry verse.

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Good narrator, excellent characters are very enjoyable read. Would recommend reading the whole series from the beginning.

Great book in the laundry series

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