The Jennifer Morgue
The second Bob Howard book is a genuine delight.
Where the first played with the tropes of a Len Deighton style spy, this one subverts the James Bond archetype.
Full of clever twists and humour, Stross subverts your expectations at every step.
Of all his varied output I think that the Laundry books come out best - he tries a bit too hard with his full-on SF and seems a bit bored of his fantasy series. With the Laundry he\'s just having fun and it shows.
I wholeheartedly recommend that you read both The Atrocity Archives and this one - you will not regret it.
All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye
This is one of Brookmyre's novels where an ordinary Scot finds themself in the middle of a full out Hollywood movie situation.
It's a blast from beginning to end and features one of the best characters that Brookmyre's ever come up with. Jane Fleming is an East Kilbride based grandmother that feels resigned to the scrapheap of life.
Except she's not yet 50, and there's still a spark of the girl that was a punk in '77. When her engineer son goes on the run for his life after he falls foul of the arms industry, that spark is fanned into flame.
Recruited by a team of mercenaries to help in locating and protecting her son, she transforms from a dowdy grandmother/housewife into an asskicking undercover operative.
Sure it's totally unbelievable, but that's pretty much the point.
If you're not looking for realism but rather for a really fun read for the summer holidays then I totally recommend this book.
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