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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Chris was always telling Emmett, without an ounce of irony, that he needed to get on the property ladder, as if his refusal to live the American dream were a matter of arrested development rather than total financial ineptitude.

Chris, who had lived with their dad rent free until he was twenty-six, had flunked out of community college, paid for by Dad; gotten his real estate license, paid for by Dad; and bought his first property at twenty-seven, again thanks to Dad, who made it clear that any financial support that might have been earmarked for Emmett had been squandered on his undergrad tuition.

Foolish of Emmett not to have dropped out and bought a fixer-upper instead.

He sat in his car, hair disheveled from driving on the freeway with the windows down. Sweat bloomed across his lower back, as hot and sticky as a fungal infection.