#48 in Thriller
The Jennifer Morgue
- 418
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Jennifer Morgue” sends its IT-desk occult agent through a knowing James Bond pastiche, and the joke lasts the whole novel. It toys with what a spy story should deliver, granting it one moment and swerving the next, always with wit. Some readers lose the thread midway before the pieces fit together, and some could do without the short extra tale at the end.
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About the book
SOME AGENTS HAVE ALL THE FUN. OTHERS SAVE THE WORLD. Bob Howard is an IT expert and occasional field agent for the Laundry, the branch of Her Majesty's Secret Service that deals with occult threats. Dressed (grudgingly) in a tux and sent to the Caribbean, he must infiltrate a millionaire's yacht in order to prevent him from violating a treaty that will bring down the wrath of an ancient underwater race upon humanity's head. Partnered with a gorgeous American agent who's actually a soul-sucking succubus from another dimension, Bob's mission (should he choose to accept it) is to stop the bad guys, avoid getting the girl, and survive - shaken, perhaps, but not stirred.
Reading order · The Laundry Files
Full order & progress →- The Atrocity ArchivesStart here
7.67.6 / 10 - The Jennifer MorgueThis book
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 Score
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 7.8 across 229 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 61% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.7 | 27 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 202 | 88% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Jennifer Morgue?
It has 418 pages — shorter than 70% of the ranked books in Thriller.
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