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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Lizette picked Emmett up from the hospital the morning after the procedure. The pain wasn’t too bad: a sore throat, some tenderness at the back of his hip. It smarted as she helped him up into the SUV, soda bottles and fast-food trash crunching under his feet.

The real damage was deeper down, a trauma that only distance from this place could heal. Why had no one told him it was going to be like that? Why hadn’t they stopped when they realized he was awake? His hands shook as they fumbled for the seat belt.

Terms like medical malpractice and punitive damages came to mind in Abby’s voice. No doubt he’d have a case. Yet the thought of going to court made him uneasy. Why would anyone trust his testimony, when he wasn’t even sure what had happened himself?

When Emmett had awoken from the procedure, he had found himself in an unfamiliar room. His head was woozy, his pain big and slippery. The sun’s position through the tinted window told him it was afternoon.