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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The restaurant was loud and crowded, hardly anywhere to sit, so Emmett and Lizette took their food out to the covered patio and squeezed in at a small table paved with the same chipped Talavera-style tiles that had been there as long as Emmett could remember.

There was more to Cotija’s for him than just the food. The taco shop stood across the street from the condo complex where his dad had lived for years. From where he sat, he could see it rising like a ridge of white stucco and brown roofs behind a low-slung strip of shops.

Coming here with his father—for a breakfast burrito to start the day, or a bean and cheese burrito after Tourmaline Beach—was the happy, uncomplicated part of his time at Dad’s, punctuated by frequent explosions of rage.

Lou Truesdale was a loving father and generous friend, but he wasn’t an easy man.