The Atrocity Archives almost beggars description. Mix some H.P. Lovecraft with some Len Deighton (Stross pays an interesting tribute to both in an afterword) and some William Gibson and you start coming close. The hero is a novice agent for a British spy agency ("The Laundry") tasked with fighting bad guys (including Saddam Hussein and Nazis) with and against monsters, demons and similar creations from alternative universes accessed by magic generated largely by advanced mathematics and technology. In others words, it's your traditional horror cyberpunk spy novel.
Sounds interesting.
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