The Rhesus Chart
- 384
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Rhesus Chart” turns the espionage and Lovecraftian horror of “The Laundry Files” on vampires, in a strong fifth volume. Bob Howard, newly a junior manager at Britain’s secret occult agency, comes across London bank traders with strange symptoms, and the story amuses and saddens by turns. Some readers tire of background explained more than once, and others find the detail hard to track. It rewards those who know the earlier volumes.
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About the book
The Hugo Award-winning author of The Delirium Brief reveals the secrets of The Laundry Files in an adventure of Lovecraftian horror and espionage hi-jinks... As a newly appointed junior manager within the Laundry—the clandestine organization responsible for protecting Britain against supernatural threats—Bob Howard is expected to show some initiative to help the agency battle the forces of darkness. But shining a light on what’s best left in the shadows is the last thing Bob wants to do—especially when those shadows hide an occult parasite spreading a deadly virus. Traders employed by a merchant bank in London are showing signs of infection—an array of unusual symptoms such as super-strength and -speed, an uncanny talent for mind control, an extreme allergic reaction to sunlight, and an unquenchable thirst for blood. While his department is tangled up in bureaucratic red tape (and Buffy reruns) debating how to stop the rash of vampirism, Bob digs deeper into the bank’s history—only to uncover a blood-curdling conspiracy between men and monsters...
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 ChartThis book
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 8.0 across 157 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 52% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.9 | 15 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 142 | 90% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Rhesus Chart?
It has 384 pages — shorter than 65% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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