Dirty Job CD, A

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death.

It's a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody's gotta do it.

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy, the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant. And Charlie's been lucky. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy, and who is about to have their first child.

Yes, Charlie's doing okay. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at his wife's bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . .

People start dropping dead around him. It seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it.

Bestselling author Christopher Moore now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we all eventually explore -- death and dying -- and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.

“This is, without a doubt, the greatest story ever told about fruit bats, zombies, and miracles. . . . Moore’s prose is hyper but never shticky, and his compassion for this island of misfits shines as bright as the samurai sword wielded by a schizophrenic warrior woman on a not-so-silent Christmas Eve.” - Entertainment Weekly, Editor's Choice; Grade A

“So delightfully warped and funny that no sane person could have written it.” - Carl Hiassen

“Humor that seamlessly blends lunacy with larceny ... habit-forming zaniness ... The careers of the writers with even a quarter as much wit and joie de vivre as Moore are always worth following.” - USA Today

For your silghtly nutty adult friends, there is ‘The Stupidest Angel’ read by Tony Roberts - Sunday Patriot News (Harrisburg, PA)

“Author Christopher Moore’s style is flip, sarcastic, and dead on hilarious. Actor Fisher Stevens does an incredible job, with a dozen different voices for the various characters.” - Lansing State Journal

“[Fisher] Stevens understands Moore . . . and his pacing is perfect. . .” - Boston Globe

“Fisher Stevens’s narration of Moore’s novel about a reluctant Grim Reaper will have listeners rolling with laughter...[Stevens] is an ideal choice as narrator. He imbues the story (without embalming it) with a whiny wit that fits Charlie’s character, and he gives distinct personalities to a wide range of characters, human and otherwise.” - AudioFile Magazine