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Vuil werk

Deze serie volgt een gewone man wiens leven een dramatische wending neemt wanneer hij onverwachts wordt gerekruteerd in dienst van de Dood. Vanaf dat moment moet hij omgaan met bovennatuurlijke krachten, mysterieuze taken en zijn eigen occasionele onhandigheid. Het is een verhaal over het accepteren van het lot en hoe zelfs een gemiddeld persoon zijn plaats kan vinden in de kosmische orde, ook al betekent dit dat hij een vies, vaak gevaarlijk, beroep moet uitoefenen. Duik in een wereld vol zwarte humor, actie en onverwachte wendingen, waarin de realiteit zich vermengt met het fantastische.

A dirty job
Secondhand Souls

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    A dirty job

    • 448bladzijden
    • 16 uur lezen
    4,1(2914)Tarief

    Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, more of a Beta than an Alpha Male. Charlie's been lucky, though. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a second-hand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normality. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child. But normal service is about to be interrupted. As Charlie prepares to go home after the birth, he sees a strange man dressed in mint-green at Rachel's hospital bedside - a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . . People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yep, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it.

    A dirty job
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    Secondhand Souls

    • 335bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen
    3,9(15951)Tarief

    In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing—and you know that can’t be good—in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job. Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone—or something—is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death Merchant Charlie Asher is just as flummoxed as everyone else. He’s trapped in the body of a fourteen-inch-tall “meat puppet” waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find him a suitable new body to play host. To get to the bottom of this abomination, a motley crew of heroes will band together: the seven-foot-tall death merchant Minty Fresh; retired policeman turned bookseller Alphonse Rivera; the Emperor of San Francisco and his dogs, Bummer and Lazarus; and Lily, the former Goth girl. Now if only they can get little Sophie to stop babbling about the coming battle for the very soul of humankind . . .

    Secondhand Souls