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The Annihilation Score (2015)

2015 · Charles Stross · 352 S. · United States of America

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Synopsis

NOBODY DOES IT BETTER ... Dr Mo O'Brien is an intelligence agent at 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. But the Laundry is recovering from a devastating attack and when average citizens all over the country start to develop supernatural powers, the police are called in to help. Mo is appointed as official police liaison, but in between dealing with police bureaucracy, superpowered members of the public and disgruntled politicians, Mo discovers to her horror that she can no longer rely on her marriage, nor on the weapon that has been at her side for eight years of undercover work, the possessed violin known as 'Lecter'. If this wasn't bad enough, a mysterious figure known as Dr Freudstein is committing heists and sending increasingly threatening messages to the police. Who is Freudstein and what is he planning?

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Ein Titel von 2015 rund um Adventure, Demonology und Fantasy. Regie: Charles Stross.

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Einflüsse

  1. 1984
    The Eyes of the Dragon
  2. 1990
    Four Past Midnight
  3. 1993
    A Night in the Lonesome October
  4. 1996
    Dead Silence
  5. 1997
    Running with the Demon
  6. 2015
    The Annihilation Score

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