The Rhesus Chart: A Laundry Files novel
Written by Charles Stross
Narrated by Jack Hawkins
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
Bob Howard is an intelligence agent working his way through the ranks of the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'. When occult powers threaten the realm, they'll be there to clean up the mess - and deal with the witnesses.
There's one kind of threat that the Laundry has never come across in its many decades, and that's vampires. Mention them to a seasoned agent and you'll be laughed out of the room.
But when a small team of investment bankers at one of Canary Wharf's most distinguished financial institutions discovers an arcane algorithm that leaves them fearing daylight and craving O positive, someone doesn't want the Laundry to know. And Bob gets caught right in the middle.
Charles Stross
Charles Stross was born in Leeds, England, in 1964. He has worked as a pharmacist, software engineer and freelance journalist, but now writes full-time. To date, Stross has won two Hugo awards and been nominated twelve times. He has also won the Locus Award for Best Novel, the Locus Award for Best Novella and has been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke and Nebula Awards. He is the author of the popular Merchant Princes and Empire Games series, set in the same world. In addition, his fiction has been translated into around a dozen languages. Stross lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife Feorag, a couple of cats, several thousand books, and an ever-changing herd of obsolescent computers.
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Reviews for The Rhesus Chart
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The romantic subplots in these books are absolutely disgusting as Stross keeps rewriting the same deranged woman who is 1) desperate to have sex with him at inappropriate moments despite him being no James Bond but a desk geek with likely a potbelly and acne, 2) exaggeratedly seductive, 3) super insecure and thinking he's about to cheat or just cheated on her and therefore 4) attacks the other woman with the intention to kill her over "keep your hands off him", 5) confusing business with their sex life and reacting inappropriately in life and death circumstances. I don't know if Stross thinks this is what normality looks like because he's had some seriously sick role models in his life or just thinks this is sexy behavior and necessary in these books, but boy would these books be so much better with no romantic subplots at all.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Series developing from strength to strength. Perfect narrator. Combination of spy story, office politics, geek humour, and supernatural horror with an only slightly plausible link to physics and maths. Thoroughly enjoyable entertainment.