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 awoke on cold tile, blinking blearily up at a ceiling of recessed lighting. Threads of pain braided themselves through every inch of his body. His mouth was dry, his stomach a pit of burning want.

Trembling, he pulled himself off the floor in front of the bathroom mirror.

He let out a cracked cry of horror at his post-overdose reflection.

He resembled a shock ad in an anti-anorexia campaign: eyes as big as moons, face a shrunken box of cheekbone and jawline, ribs protruding through a pallid drip of waxy skin.