Nothing Tastes As Good

Nothing Tastes As Good

Author: Luke Dumas Listening Length: 11h 25m

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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As fast as he’d lost the weight, it seemed to pile back on at twice the speed.

Emmett should’ve been more concerned that the police were narrowing in on a murder charge—especially now that the gym bro’s remains had been identified by his dental records as those of missing Point Loma man Marco Jiménez—but it hardly registered against the horror taking place in Emmett’s weight-tracking app.

Every morning he stepped onto the scale and anguished.

Two, three, four pounds heavier than he’d been the previous day.