If it sounds over the top, that's because it is-but Moore's enthusiasm and skill make it convincing, and his affection for the cast of weirdos gives the book an unexpected poignancy. A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore 4.03 116,205 Ratings 7,229 Reviews published 2006 61 editions Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal Want to Read Rate it: Book 2 Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore 3.

While Charlie's employees, Lily the Goth girl and Ray the ex-cop, mind the shop, and two enormous hellhounds babysit, Charlie attends to his dangerous soul-collecting duties, building toward a showdown with Death in a Gold Rush–era ship buried beneath San Francisco's financial district. Along comes Minty Fresh-the man in green-to enlighten him: turns out Charlie and Minty are Death Merchants, whose job (outlined in the Great Big Book of Death) is to gather up souls before the Forces of Darkness get to them. When objects in his store begin glowing, strangers drop dead before him and man-sized ravens start attacking him, Charlie figures something's up. Though security cameras catch nothing, Charlie swears he saw an impossibly tall black man in a mint green suit standing beside Rachel as she died. A Dirty Job: A Novel Christopher Moore (4,672) Kindle Edition 10.99 2 Secondhand Souls: A Novel Christopher Moore (3,788) Kindle Edition 13. For beta male Charlie Asher, proprietor of a shop in San Francisco, life and death meet in a maternity ward recovery room where his wife, Rachel, dies shortly after giving birth. also learned that Moore will write a sequel to his novel A Dirty Job - and then he signed every book presented to him for his signature, chatting and.

Moore wrote Blood Sucking Fiends before A Dirty Job and then the sequel book, You Suck and Bite Me before the Second Hand Souls. ) tackles death-make that Death-in his latest wonderful, whacked-out yarn. I did not know this til I picked up Blood Sucking Fiends on this most recent two for one sale but the Love Series and A Dirty Job take place in the same universe.

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