I didn't know what I was getting into when I picked this as an audiobook. What I ended up with is amusing, confusing, and sometimes disturbing. Bob Howard is a computer tech in a secret British Intelligence Agency called "The Laundry." When he accidentally saves the lives of coworkers he ends up promoted to field work. "Field work" involves using the laws of physics for occult purposes and dealing with those who use those laws for nefarious purposes.. The promotion puts him in conflict with his former boss who is constantly bugging him about unexplained absences and incomplete time sheets. A portal has been opened to let supernatural beings from an alternate universe into our universe. Bob's investigations uncover the fact that the Nazis had used the millions of death camp victims as 'blood sacrifices' to open the portal and conjure evil. Now Bob and a team from the Laundry must close the portal to keep any more evil from passing through. However, they discover that the nuclear weapon they were planning to use to close the portal is actually going to make things worse. I'll not give away the ending.
In the novella, The Concrete Jungle, Bob is investigating concrete cows (which I really didn't understand) and a weapon called Scorpion Stare. Someone has programmed the local traffic cameras with the deadly weapon which seems to be a cross between a deadly taser and a flame thrower. Bob enlists the help of police officer named Josephine to put a stop to the surprise bad guys who are trying to pull off an internal coup of the Laundry. While it was a fun story, this part got tedious with way too much technical mumbo-jumbo.
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