Book Review: The Fuller Memorandum
Apart from the spy-geek touch, the Laundry series is slowly getting the touch of the hero type stories. The main hero of the Laundry is a geek who has turned into a demonologist and a secret agent, who is out to rescue the damsel in distress, Dominique, whom he later falls in love with. He does not own a car and keeps going between the London walkways and tubes, using the tube more often considering the problem he faces when he uses the former. Just going to thrown this out there, if I took the tube as much as this man I would totally start to carry c fold towels with me…
The character of bob has grown in comparison to the earlier series. Keeping this in mind, the author has plotted the story in such a way that it gets darker with every chapter. The story is narrated by Bob, whose main work is to collect and file reports of his missions. The cases are so challenging that it is uncertain to guess whether he will survive through his mission or not.
Teapot is an inhabitant of a human body. The body, which is believed to be the eater of souls, is kept in the Laundry’s labs for experimentation purposes. Inspite of the dangers haunting the Laundry, Bob decides to work there in order to fight chaos and disorder. Unlike the earlier two books, the Full Memorandum mostly revolves around the secret office of Bob’s and the house shared by Mo and him. There are a number of excursions that involve haunted airplanes and abandoned railway tunnels, where a bystander is killed. The climax happens in the London Cemetery though. The staff for the Laundry is obtained by co-opting them instead of killing them and discovering the mathematics power.
It becomes utterly difficult to track who’s who as the story progresses and you are left guessing throughout. In the first book, Bob was noticed by the firm as a secret and clever hacker. The code of the time is Case Nightmare Green, which shows the high imagination level of Charles Stross.
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