life is about to get just a little bit weird. but who was the seven foot black man in the mint green silk suit at her bedside, and why did only Charlie see him, and what is so special about the CD he has stolen?įor Charlie Asher. It would be bad enough: Rachel dying like that, suddenly, for an inexplicable reason. Pain of death, sadly, is what immediately follows. Beta's can be tiresome sometimes, and he's been shooed from the delivery room on pain of death. He has somehow managed to entrance a beautiful woman, married her and is now attending the birth of their beautiful first daughter. let's just say they have a better survival rate.)Ĭharlie Asher is, however, a happy Beta. they might not get to be top dog, but when it comes to weight of numbers.
the guys with enough imagination to get out of the way of the dangerous pursuits indulged in by the Alphas. (A whole new philosophy there: The world is led by Alpha Males but the machinery runs on the bearings of Beta Males. That is only one of the philosophical questions that lurk beneath the layers of dark humour which make up the rest of the book.Ĭharlie Asher is quite definitely a Beta Male.
"do the math" as they would say in America. Do we have a soul? Leastways - do all of us? If there are more people now alive than ever previously lived, and souls transmigrate from body to body. Which is one of the questions raised by Christopher Moore's Dirty Job. The author has clearly picked up on whatever specific fear lives in the deepest recess of your soul. When the mere premise of a book is haunting your dreams before you're even far enough into it to start identifying with any of the characters. Delightfully witty if that's the way your mind works.but you probably do need to have a certain sense of humour. Occasionally violent, sexual, and always irreverent.
You really don't want to let your pets anywhere near that pretty little girl. Summary: Traditional fight of the good guys versus the evil sewer monsters, played out in San Francisco's mean streets, where nothing is ever quite what it seems.
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