Bob Howard is an IT specialist & field agent for the Laundry the branch of Her Majesty's secret service that deals with occult threats Overworked & underpaid Bob is used to his two jobs overflowing from a strict nine to five & since his wife Mo has a very similar job description he understands that work will sometimes follow her home too But when 'work' involves zombie assassins & minions of a mad god's cult he realises things are spinning out of control When a top-secret dossier goes missing & his boss Angleton is implicated Bob must contend with suspiciously helpful Russian intelligence operatives & an unscrupulous apocalyptic cult before confronting the decades-old secret that lies at the heart of the Laundry what is so important about the missing Fuller Memorandum? & why are all the people who know dying ?