Charles Stross returns to his Laundry Files series with The Rhesus Chart. This is a difficult book to describe without giving away too much of the plot. If you’ve read previous entries in the series you’re probably not wasting your time reading my words --- you’ve already got your hands on the book. So, assuming you’re a neophyte, Bob Howard is our hero. He works for a government agency that monitors what might be called extra-reality incursions. Basically people who understand higher mathematics, philosophy, or other logical sciences develop an ability to reach outside of reality and invite the tentacle monsters from beyond in. This is not good so Bob’s agency works to ameliorate everything bad that can go down. In this particular volume Bob stumbles across an external incursion by a parasite that functions by making the affected vampires (or close enough that we might as well call them that). This is only the beginning and the plot really explodes from there.If you’ve never read books from this series before you might want to start with the first one The Atrocity Archives and go forward from there.
