The Tentacled Monkey

[openbook booknumber="9780441016716" displayoptions="1" hidelibrary="true"]Well I burned through the second book in Charles Stross’ The Laundry series dubbed The Jennifer Morgue. This story picks up alomst three years after the previous book and finds out favorite necromantic computer hacker has become a somewhat reluctant regular in Field Ops. Stross makes great use of the Bond stereotype in this novel, and there is not a flat character to be found.

Stross should be commended on this book as a sterling example of a good damn read. Even if you are not into the Lovecraftian undertones that are heavily present throughout the novel, you will surely enjoy the ways in which the protagonist, Bob Howard, finds himself in one pickle after another. How many characters that you know of get to skinny dip with a gorgeous super model assassin from beneath the waves out of a necessity to survive while chased by a villanous billionaires henchmen?

Sounds like a Bond plot doesn’t it? Well it is of sorts, but you absolutely must read it to understand why it most assuredly is not. This is an amazing ride of a novel that makes me want for more in a way that I have not encountered since being introduced to The Dresden Files.

I am not entirely certain what is up next, but in following in the tradition of late I think it will be another Stross novel. Possibly Saturn’s Children.