In his day planner names and numbers appear, giving him a time limit to collect their soul vessels. Naturally, such a responsibility doesn’t come without consequence. More precisely, he is a “death merchant”, whose task is to shepherd the souls of people bound to objects (soul vessels) towards new owners, sorely lacking a soul themselves. However, something even more disturbing happened to him while he was witnessing his wife’s passing: he saw a seven-foot tall black man in a lime-green suit standing over her, a man nobody else could see.Īfter strange occurrences besiege Charlie at an increasingly alarming rate, he finally makes a discovery which might just breathe some new life into him: he is sort of a Grim Reaper. More importantly, Charlie’s beloved wife Rachel has just recently passed away while giving birth to their daughter Sophie, leaving him all alone in a life he has absolutely no idea how to live. Many are those who have imagined themselves or others in such a role, and in A Dirty Job, the first novel in the Grim Reaper Series, Christopher Moore puts his own spin on the subject, introducing us to Charlie Asher, the unfortunate owner of a second-hand clothing store. In one way or another, every culture has tried to define and deal with the concept of death in its own way, and a common way of perceiving it is to attribute the act to a single entity responsible for it all. Christopher Moore Raises an Unwitting Reaper
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