The Atrocity Archives
Bob Howard is a deskbound IT specialist for the Laundry, a secret British intelligence agency tasked with defending the world against occult threats. In this universe, magic is a branch of applied mathematics, and a simple computer program can accidentally summon a cosmic horror from another dimension. When Bob is promoted from tech support to active field duty, he discovers that bureaucracy and …
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