Greed isn't automatically dangerous on its won, and petty authoritarians aren't usually dangerous outside their immediate vicinity - but when you combine the two, you get gangsters and dictators and hate-spewing preachers. Let's shade in the intersecting area in a different color and label it: dangerous. View our feature on Charles Stross The Fuller Memorandum. Computational demonologist Bob Howard is taking a much-needed break from the field to catch up on his filing in the Laundry archives when a top secret dossier known as the Fuller Memorandum vanishesalong with his boss, who the agency’s executives believe stole the file. They overlap: the greedy ones and the authoritarian ones. Let me draw you a Venn diagram with two circles on it, denoting sets of individuals. As in the previous novels, the protagonist is Bob Howard, an agent for the intelligence agency known as the Laundry. It is set in 2008 and was published in 2010. There is another philosophy by which people live their lives, and it goes thus: You will do as I say or I will hurt you. The Fuller Memorandum is the third novel in the Laundry series of novels. (This isn't to say that all estate agents, or merchant bankers, or conservatives are selfish, but that these are ways of life that provide opportunities of a certain disposition to enrich themselves at the expense of others. These people are often selfish brats as kids, and they don't get better with age: think of the shifty-eyed smarmy asshole from the sixth form who grow up to be a merchant banker, or an estate agent, or one of the Conservative Party funny-handshake mine's a Rolex brigade. View our feature on Charles Stross The Fuller Memorandum.

“There is a philosophy by which many people live their lives, and it is this: life is a shit sandwich, but the more bread you've got, the less shit you have to eat.

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