The Annihilation Score
- 416
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Annihilation Score” gives the “Laundry Files” a new narrator in Mo O’Brien and a superhero plot wrapped in police bureaucracy. Some readers need a little time to adjust to her voice and then enjoy the ride, counting it among their favourites of the series. Others find the characters unpleasant and the superhero material a poor swap for the usual occult horror, and rank this sixth volume as the weakest Laundry novel.
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About the book
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?
Reading order · The Laundry Files
Full order & progress →- The Atrocity ArchivesStart here
7.67.6 / 10 - The Jennifer Morgue
7.87.8 / 10 - The Fuller Memorandum
8.08.0 / 10 - The Apocalypse Codex
8.08.0 / 10 - The Rhesus Chart
7.97.9 / 10 - The Annihilation ScoreThis book
7.87.8 / 10 - The Nightmare Stacks
7.87.8 / 10 - The Delirium Brief
8.18.1 / 10 - The Labyrinth Index
7.97.9 / 10 - Dead Lies Dreaming
7.97.9 / 10 - Quantum of Nightmares
–Not ranked yet - Season of Skulls
–Not ranked yet - A Conventional BoyA Conventional Boy–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 128 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 47% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.9 | 14 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 114 | 89% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Annihilation Score?
It has 416 pages — shorter than 73% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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