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Bob Howard

Laundry IT officer turned agent · Charles Stross

Bob Howard is a Laundry IT officer turned agent.

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Character facts

First appearance
The Atrocity Archives (2004)
Latest appearance
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
Books
9 (6 as lead, 2 major, 1 minor)
Series
Laundry Files
Author
Charles Stross
Circle
The Laundry

Where to meet Bob Howard

Bob Howard first appears in The Atrocity Archives (2004), as the lead, book 1 of the Laundry Files series.

Buy The Atrocity Archives

Every book with Bob Howard

In publication order, with the size of their role in each.

  1. 2004LThe Atrocity Archiveslead · Laundry FilesBuy
  2. 2006LThe Jennifer Morguelead · Laundry FilesBuy
  3. 2010LThe Fuller Memorandumlead · Laundry FilesBuy
  4. 2012LThe Apocalypse Codexlead · Laundry FilesBuy
  5. 2014LThe Rhesus Chartlead · Laundry FilesBuy
  6. 2015MThe Annihilation Scoremajor role · Laundry FilesBuy
  7. 2016·The Nightmare Stacksminor role · Laundry FilesBuy
  8. 2017LThe Delirium Brieflead · Laundry FilesBuy
  9. 2018MThe Labyrinth Indexmajor role · Laundry FilesBuy

Appears most often with

CharacterBooks together
Mo O'BrienCombat epistemologist, Bob's wife9
AngletonBob's ancient, terrifying boss5
Mhari MurphyBob's ex, later a vampire4
Alex SchwartzJunior Laundry agent2