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Violence
Some
Supernatural violence; Lovecraftian danger
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of bureaucracy as horror, the mundane management of the impossible, and dark cosmic entities who notice math
What this book is about
The first Laundry Files novel (2004) follows Bob Howard, a computer scientist at a secret UK government agency called the Laundry, which battles entities from other dimensions using mathematics-as-magic. Spy thriller meets Lovecraftian horror meets workplace comedy. For adults.
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Lovecraftian horror elements
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