I don't particularly want to like Charles Stross' novels. Charlie, after all, is sort of a Trotskyite commie pinko neo-pagan or maybe something even worse. But, lord, can the boy write. I just finished Atrocity Archive. And it's even better than The Family Trade. (I reviewed the latter here.)
How to summarize it? James Bond meets Cthulhu? The Atrocity Archive is a melding of three genres - science fiction, horror, and spy thrillers - that is a homage to people like Len Deighton and Lovecraft, with a little touch of Dilbert at Work thrown in, but out of which emerges something new and original. Sheer, freaking genius. In short, it's the best novel I've read since Old Man's War, which in my book (pardon the pun) is high praise indeed.