The Wrong Dead Guy Audiobook (Free)
- Oliver Wyman
- 12 h 12 min
- HarperAudio
- 2017-02-28
Summary:
In this overly busy sequel to The Everything Box-the second admittance in New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey’s comedic supernatural series-chaos ensues when House and the team at DOPS grab a not-quite-dead and incredibly lovesick ancient Egyptian mummy wielding some terrifying magic.
Coop, a expert thief type of gone legit, saved the globe from a historical doomsday device-heroism that earned him a gig doing work for the Section of Peculiar Science, a fearsome top secret government company that about THE INCORRECT Dead Man polices the odd and strange. Today Woolrich, Coop’s employer in the DOPS, has Coop breaking into a journeying antiquities present to steal a sarcophagus containing the mummy of a powerful Egyptian wizard named Harkhuf. By using his pals Morty, Giselle, and a teacher that’s half-cat, half-robotic octopus, Coop pulls from the heist without a hitch.
It’s not Coop’s fault that whenever DOPS opened the sarcophagus they didn’t find the mummy they were expecting. Well, it had been the proper mummy, but it wasn’t exactly dead-and today it’s escaped, utilizing a kind of magic the organization hasn’t encountered before. Being a manager, Woolrich blames his underling for the screw up and wants Coop to find the lacking Harkhuf and make it right, pronto.
Digging into Harkhuf’s history, Coop feels the mummy is hunting for an ancient magical manuscript that will assist him bring his old lover back again to life.
Which wouldn’t be so very bad if she wasn’t a warrior sorceress hell-bent on conquering the world with her undead armies.
Coop would very much like to run in the oncoming chaos. It’s one thing to steal a mummy, but another to suffer from head-hunting bureaucrats, down-on-their fortune fortune tellers, undead mailroom clerks, and a rather unimpressed elephant. However, there’s nowhere to run. If he desires the madness to stop, he’s going to have to suck it up and play hero once more. But if House manages to save the globe AGAIN, he’s definitely going to want a lot of answers. And a raise.