These tech platforms are basically pimps ... They don't *do* the work the customers value, they just take the money for it.

Thank you.

I suspected as much.

How important is prior knowledge of the series to this one? Could one start here?

Or, alternatively, what's the most recent Laundry Files book one could start with?

anyway, my dudes, you are too old to believe in the logistics fairy

There's no 'just' about this... None of this is easy.

This requires a remaking of large parts of America's culture.

Especially the part of our culture that looks to guns as an easy or certain solution. They aren't.