Nothing Tastes As Good

Nothing Tastes As Good

Author: Luke Dumas Listening Length: 11h 25m
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The nationally bestselling author of The Paleontologist and A History of Fear returns with a spine-tingling new thriller about a weight loss treatment with terrifying side effects. Retail worker Emmett Truesdale has never fit the Southern California mold of six-pack, suntanned masculinity. Over three hundred pounds, he...

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Emmett jolted awake. Morning light slanted in through the blinds, slicing the bedroom into orderly chunks: the wobbly IKEA desk, the rumpled T.J.

Maxx comforter, the Pokémon posters tacked up to the wall, corners heavily pricked after multiple moves.

Rent hikes had forced Emmett and Lizette to switch apartments three times in five years before they found the Cabana Apartments, a pair of charmingly stained stucco buildings in Point Loma near his dad’s old condo.

A mile to work and two to the beach. An airplane departing from San Diego International blared overhead, an occurrence so constant they barely noticed it anymore.