“I head off to the conference room for the Ways and Means Committee meeting—to investigate new ways of being mean, as Bridget (may Nyarlathotep rest her soul) once it explained it to me.”

— Charles Stross, The Laundry Files

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The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006)

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