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Reminds me of this book series called the Laundry Files. It is a unique mix between Men in Black, Lovecraftian Eldritch and Cosmic Horror, and The Office. In it, magic, monsters, interdimensional beings, eldritch gods, etc. are all real, a constant threat, and kept entirely hidden from the public by secret government organizations made up mostly of conscripted engineers, mathematicians, physicists, etc. who unwittingly discovered some deeper aspect of the universe.

See, math and algorithms describe the rules and logic of the universe, and since the universe is actually filled with the occult, sometimes that math actually taps into aspects of the universe they weren't expecting. Some can generate apparent magical effects. Some touch into realms whose inhabitants want released or don't want to be bothered. Some algorithms have the capability of waking the great old ones that will destroy the world.

So those people who get too close to such discoveries, they are quickly taken into custody, made to understand the secret nature and apocalyptic danger of the universe that they have been unknowningly dabbling with, conscripted into service of the highly bureaucratic Laundry Files to help protect the world from it, and bound with magical wards to prevent them from speaking of any of it with anyone outside of the organization.

Applied mathematics and computer science are the magic spells of this universe. The increasing amount of compute in the world is pulling us ever close to the end of the universe. It's a problem. But also, Susan in finance won't approve a new coffe maker in the break room and a Succubus is your new supervisor. That's the vibe this series brings. I love it.