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A Dirty Job

Name: A Dirty Job
Rating: 4.03 (123541 reviews)
Author: Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore March 21, 2006

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Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They’re even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie’s doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death.

It’s a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody’s got to do it.

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