There's a surprising amount of pathos to be found in a story that centers around a squirrel-man with a giant dong. Moore creates a novel that pulses with its own glowing soul start to finish.' - USA Today (3.5 out of 4 stars) 'Moore has created a world all his own, tackling dark subjects with a light-hearted irreverence. But Chrisopher Moore can.' - Washington Post 'antastically bizarre. the perfect palate cleanser before the fall's literary entrees. takes that to a whole new level.weird, expletive-laden, wildly entertaining. Now if only they can get little Sophie to stop babbling about the coming battle for the very soul of humankind. To get to the bottom of this abomination, a motley crew of heroes will band together: the seven-foot-tall death merchant Minty Fresh retired policeman turned bookseller Alphonse Rivera the Emperor of San Francisco and his dogs, Bummer and Lazarus and Lily, the former Goth girl. He's trapped in the body of a fourteen-inch-tall 'meat puppet' waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find him a suitable new body to play host. Death Merchant Charlie Asher is just as flummoxed as everyone else. Someone-or something-is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing-and you know that can't be good-in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore's delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job.

He’s trapped in the body of a fourteen-inch-tall “meat puppet” waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find him a suitable new body to play host.

In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing-and you know that can’t be good-in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job.

Secondhand souls