The Rhesus Chart, Charles Stross
The Rhesus Chart, Charles Stross
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The Rhesus Chart

Author: Charles Stross

Narrator: Gideon Emery

Unabridged: 13 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/01/2014

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

As a newly appointed junior manager within the Laundry - the clandestine organization responsible for protecting Britain against supernatural threats - Bob Howard is expected to show some initiative to help the agency battle the forces of darkness. But shining a light on things best left in the shadows is the last thing Bob wants to do - especially when those shadows hide an occult parasite spreading a deadly virus. Traders employed by a merchant bank in London are showing signs of infection - an array of unusual symptoms such as superstrength and -speed, an uncanny talent for mind control, an extreme allergic reaction to sunlight, and an unquenchable thirst for blood. While his department is tangled up in bureaucratic red tape (and Buffy reruns), debating how to stop the rash of vampirism, Bob digs deeper into the bank's history - only to uncover a bloodcurdling conspiracy between men and monsters....

About Charles Stross

CHARLES STROSS (he/him) is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has won three Hugo Awards for Best Novella, including for the Laundry Files tale “Equoid.” His work has been translated into over twelve languages. His novels include the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry series (including Locus Award finalist The Dilirium Brief), and several stand-alones including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn's Children. Like many writers, Stross has had a variety of careers, occupations, and job-shaped catastrophes, from pharmacist (he quit after the second police stakeout) to first code monkey on the team of a successful dot-com startup (with brilliant timing, he tried to change employers just as the bubble burst) to technical writer and prolific journalist covering the IT industry. Along the way he collected degrees in pharmacy and computer science, making him the world’s first officially qualified cyberpunk writer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Trish on May 22, 2018

No no no no no no no. Just so you know: my current state of mind is such that I just sent the following tweet to the author: This 5th book details how Bob is sent to check on health and safety violations, leading him to the discovery that although vampires can't possibly be real ... well, they are. In......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on May 21, 2018

Re-read 5/21/18: My god this series only gets better as it goes along. I thought this was a somewhat weak novel in the whole mix but I was definitely mistaken. Knowing what comes later influences my decision. Easy. This is, however, a pretty big turning point for both Bob and the Laundry. His personal......more

Goodreads review by Terje on July 04, 2014

I tend to give Stross' work 5 stars by default and then subtract from there. The Rhesus Chart, unfortunately, is sufficiently uneven that the 4 stars I do give it is a little bit generous and subjective. I love the book, as I pretty much love everything Stross bothers putting to paper, but objective......more

Goodreads review by Matt on November 18, 2014

I'm having an increasingly love hate relationship with this series. The early books in the series had enthralling build ups but very weak endings. Stross seems to have overcome his problems building interesting exciting finales, but the books themselves are getting more and more boring in the lead u......more

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