A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore

The modern master of comic satire, Moore delivers a hilarious and heartwarming story in which the ultimate Beta Male--the kind who is very, very careful and very prepared--takes a nosedive into the deep end of uncertainty when he's recruited to handle a new role: Death. \n \nCharlie 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.\n \nIt's a dirty job. But, hey Somebody's gotta do it.\n