{"product_id":"a-conventional-boy-a-laundry-files-novel-9781250357847","title":"A Conventional Boy: A Laundry Files Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this new Laundry Files adventure the fate of the world will literally depend on the roll of dice... twenty-sided dice, that is.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1984, Derek Reilly was just another spotty teenage dungeon master growing up in middle England. But then a secret government agency tasked with suppressing magical intrusions received a tip-off - and one midnight raid later, his life was turned upside down by the Satanic D\u0026amp;D Panic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDecades later Derek, now middle-aged and institutionalized, is a long-term inmate at Camp Sunshine, a center for deprogramming captured Elder God cultists. He's considered safe enough to edit the camp newsletter, and he even has postal privileges - which he uses to run a play-by-mail game. After 25 years, Derek finally has reason to escape: a nearby D\u0026amp;D convention. While Derek's D\u0026amp;D games were full of fictional elder gods and world-ending threats, a LARP game at the con \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e a dread ritual designed to summon a great evil into our world, and it's up to Derek and his players to stop them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe fate of the world may depend on the contents of Derek's magic dice bag.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHARLES STROSS is the author of the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry Files series, and several stand-alone novels including \u003ci\u003eGlasshouse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAccelerando\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSaturn's Children\u003c\/i\u003e. He has won three Hugo Awards, including one for the Laundry Files novella \u003ci\u003eEquoid\u003c\/i\u003e, published on \u003ci\u003eReactor\u003c\/i\u003e (formerly \u003ci\u003eTor.com\u003c\/i\u003e). Born and raised in Leeds, England, he lives with his spouse in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a flat that is slightly older than the state of Texas.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tordotcom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50875210105106,"sku":"9781250357847","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_daf03872-dcbe-498d-bc3b-c0f158641b41.jpg?v=1738283472","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-conventional-boy-a-laundry-files-novel-9781250357847","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}