Le Bureau des atrocités

Blurb

The Atrocity Archives is a book by British author Charles Stross, published in 2004. It includes the short novel The Atrocity Archive and The Concrete Jungle, which won the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
The stories are Lovecraftian spy thrillers involving a secret history of the 20th century, although they are not set in Lovecraft's universe. Horror elements such as the Nazis using higher mathematics to open "gates" to other dimensions are combined with humorous elements satirising bureaucracy. The protagonist of both stories is a computer expert calling himself "Bob Oliver Francis Howard" who has been conscripted into a secret British occult intelligence organisation, "The Laundry".
A sequel entitled The Jennifer Morgue, patterned after the James Bond movies, was released in November in 2006. A third book, The Fuller Memorandum, was released in July 2010, followed by The Apocalypse Codex in July 2012. A fifth book, The Rhesus Chart, was released in July 2014.