Few of our decisions really mean anything. File that report, fill that spreadsheet, attend that meeting – and at the end of the day, did any of that matter? Few of us make life and death decisions – and that's a luxury. Even in the Laundry, that secret branch of government charged with protecting the world from horrors unimaginable, most decisions are inconsequential. Do you fix the printer in the HR office first or the DVD drive in the travel laptop first? Do you read the files about the incidence of birth deformations in cattle near dimensional weak spots, or the new directive on time tracking work emails while out of the office? (Hint: neither of them will ever have any future relevance to you).

This book is about two very different types of people whose decisions matter.

When there's a clear and present danger, when the Laundry needs to apply force very quickly and very directly, they turn to the professionals. They call in the SAS, the British special forces. Tough, highly trained men who'll get the job done. The decisions made by special forces matter; their decisions are often made in the split second, and are the difference between life and death. Hesitate, or make the wrong call, and you die, or your squadmates die, or maybe everyone in the world dies. They're down in the trenches, in the foxholes, in the godforsaken corners of the world, on lonely plateaus in Central Asia or warzones in Africa, spending the coin of their lives to complete the mission.

And then there are those in the corridors of power, managers and strategists and sorcerers who must weigh the fates of nations. They meet in oak-panelled rooms with green baize tables in Whitehall, in dimly-lit bunkers beneath some obscure government buildings, in anonymous conference rooms with their counterparts from other nations, and they try to prepare humanity for those unimaginable horrors. Their decisions are made in committees, in briefing documents, in agendas and initiatives, in the shuffling of papers – but they affect more people than any bullet or bomb.

The decisions made in those conference calls and strategy meeting are often the ones implemented by the special forces. There may be thousands of miles between Whitehall and that bloody ditch where a British soldier gives his life to get the job done, but they're two sides of the same coin.

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The Laundry – protecting the United Kingdom from the scum of the multiverse. Most of the time, saving the world is a 9 to 5 job. Clock in every morning. Feel your life tick away with each meeting and each pointless bit of paperwork. Stare at a screen and feel your brain leaking out through your ears. Try to keep the boredom from killing you. Clock out in the evening and slouch home.

It's never good when they call you into the office at four in the morning. Any mission that doesn't fit on the standard day planner is inevitably ghastly. They involve things with too many tentacles, people who want to kill you, and secrets that mean you'll never sleep well again. Keep your mouth shut and your head down, and you might just make it through the night. Screw up, and it's entirely possible you just doomed humanity to a fate worse than death.

No pressure.

Black Bag Jobs contains six self-contained missions for your Laundry campaign. From the war-torn hillsides of Afghanistan to the corridors of power in Whitehall, from yoga lessons in Devon to the end of the world, it's time to break in and steal the secrets of reality, like:

* The truth about social networking
* How to weaponize a shoggoth
* Management secrets of the undying priests
* What the Auditors fear
* How to prepare for the apocalypse
* ...and what happens after.

Size: 128pp
Interior Art: B&W
Author: Gareth Hanrahan

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Our reality is ruled by monstrous gods, invisible horrors that hunger to consume us.

Some deluded bastards worship these gods, trading obeisance for power or magic or the privilege of getting eaten last when the world ends. Cults are like cockroaches, breeding in the shadows, gnawing at the walls of society, fearful of the light... and bloody hard to kill.

This supplement for the Laundry Files roleplaying game delves into the murky realm of the cultist and the conspirator, detailing eight of the nastiest, most tenacious foes of the Laundry and dozens of minor ones.

128 pages - softcover - black & white interior

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The game’s played in the corridors of power in Westminister and Washington. It’s played in alleyways in Bangkok and desolate hillsides in Afghanistan. It’s played in the skies of distant alien worlds, where terrible things slumber behind the wall of pain. The game’s played with bullets and with secrets, and they’re both equally deadly.

Our opponents in this game are cultists and monsters. Some of them are deluded pawns. Others know what they’ll unleash with their next move. If we lose the game, we lose everything.

This 128 page sourcebook for the Laundry Files expands on the revelations of The Apocalypse Codex novel and sends your games hurtling towards Armageddon.

Inside, you’ll find:
* External Assets, the Laundry’s deniable operations department
* Secrets of the Black Chamber
* Dossier reports on CODICIL BLACK SKULL and the Plateau of the Sleeper
* Two new adventures

And many more horrors...

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Like Fighting Fire with a Molotov Cocktail Wisely did Ibn Schacabao say, that happy is the tomb where no wizard hath lain, happy the town whose wizards are all ashes, and happy the line manager whose wizards hath filled in their timesheets for this Sabbat-night.

The Laundry—that top-secret, bottom-drawer branch of British espionage—was founded to ensure that magic is kept under control, and that no-one summons the Great Old Ones ahead of schedule. The best way to fight magic is with more magic, which is a little like fighting fire by hitting it with a molotov cocktail.

License to Summon explores the dark side of Computational Demonology and arcane science within the Laundry, as well as the magic of other agencies... and other entities.

• New spells, new gadgets, new ways to end the world!
• The game of Lovecraftian spy thrillers, with a touch of zombies, long-lost Nazis, terrorist cults, foreign agents, and Her Majesty’s Civil Service
• Fans of The Laundry Files novels, by Hugo-award winning novelist Charles Stross, will love this game; fans of Paranoia will dig the touch of geeky, The Office-style humor

• Compatible with Call of Cthulhu, and with a ton of crossover sales potential!

Softcover, 8.5” x 11”, black and white, 128 pages

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If a Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing...

Some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age...

Deep beneath London, the Laundry archives occupy several miles of disused subway tunnel. The shelves are crammed with documents and reports. Eyewitness statements, newspaper cuttings, court transcripts, the diaries of madmen, autopsies, scientific papers, archived material – from these, the Laundry works to piece together the shape of the world. A seemingly innocuous report may contain vital information when correlated with a dozen other files. Triangulate the doctor's report about an outbreak of strange dreams with seismic activity under the Pacific, and find the traces of the sleeping god. Match the suppressed play from Shakespeare to troop movements in Syria to plot the shape of impending doom.

The Dossiers contain extracts from the murkier reaches of the Laundry's archives, a selection of unexplained encounters, unverified reports, uncorrelated data, loosely organised by whatever codeword seemed to fit. The truth exists in the unseen connections between them. The Mythos Dossiers contain dozens of reports, handouts, eyewitness accounts and deranged speculation about the horrors of the Mythos. Read them at your peril.

* The game of Lovecraftian spy thrillers, with a touch of zombies, long-lost Nazis, terrorist cults, foreign agents, and Her Majestys Civil Service
* Cthulhu-style games have a tradition of fascinating handouts which is what this product is all about!
* Fans of The Laundry Files novels, by Hugo-award winning novelist Charles Stross, will love this game; fans of Paranoia will dig the touch of geeky, The Office-style humor
* Compatible with Call of Cthulhu!

Size: 128pp, Softcover, 8.5" x 11"
Interior Art: B&W
Author: Gareth Hanrahan, A. P. Klosky, James Knevitt, W. J. MacGuffin, Paul L Mathews, Brian Nisbet, John Snead, Jay Stratton, Graham Walmsley

The Laundry is a secret branch of the British Civil Service, dedicated to protecting the United Kingdom against Horrors from Beyond. In your time in the Laundry, you've seen your share of terrible, frightening documents: grimoires bound in human skin, soul-eating computer code, ISO9001 compliance assessments. None, though, are as terrifying as the thing sitting on your desk.

It's a plane ticket. The Laundry's budgets are more tightly bound than a summoned shoggoth. If they're paying for your flights, then something hellish is about to happen overseas, and you're in the firing line.

Unconventional Diplomacy features 6 sanity-challenging scenarios:

THE SCRAMBLE FOR BURANDA
Three British aid workers vanish in Africa, right on the border of the isolationist nation of Buranda. Getting them home is your secondary objective. The primary mission is to clear up a very old loose end and recover the fabled Dagger of the Bloody Tongue – and avoid an international incident while doing so.

CASE ARSON SPARKLEPONY
Something weird is about to happen at the Burning Man festival, according to the precognitives over at Predictive Branch. That means, one, Predictive Branch is as much use as a chocolate heat sink on an over-clocked summoning grid, and two, it's time for a jaunt to the United States. Just try to stay out of the Black Chamber's unblinking gaze.

LEGACY CODE
In old institutions like the Laundry, you don't just get pilloried for your own mistakes. The errors and failures of all those who have gone before land on your desk. Some eldritch entity just filed the mother of all bug reports. Time for some tech support with extreme prejudice.

POCKET FULL OF PRIAPUS
One of your co-workers ran into a spot of bother in France, and is currently sitting in a jail cell in Paris. For various reasons, this needs to be kept quiet and under the radar of our European Partners. Could you just pop over, clear his name and close his case for him, there's a good chap?

DARKNESS BEYOND OUR WORLD
Jeremy Walshe works for the Laundry. Jeremy Walshe was supposed to fly home from Washington today. He didn't get on the plane, and he's got a head full of secrets that need to be secured. Fly out, find him, and get him back to the UK before anything eats his brain. What can possibly go wrong?

YE LIVELIEST AWFULNESS
Earlier this afternoon, the police helped eject a troublemaking nuisance from the US embassy in London. Crazy cranks are ten a penny these days, but three things about this guy stand out. First, he was raving about gods and monsters. Second, he vanished soon after being kicked out. And third, he said his name was Howard Philips Lovecraft...

120 pages - softcover - black & white interior