And Moore must have also thought so since he trotted nearly everyone of that novel’s characters back on stage for Secondhand Souls. In A Dirty Job, Moore, a delightfully witty, foul-mouthed and fairly insane writer, tells the story of a bunch of witty, foul-mouthed and fairly insane San Franciscoans who get caught up in the work of the Universe as Death Merchants, collecting souls from the recently dead and making sure each soul ends up into the correct new body. So, it’s bad that the Irish hellhounds - Alvin and Mohammed - have disappeared from the scene.īeyond all that, though, there was at least one reader who spent much of Secondhand Souls mourning the absence of the two 400-pound mastiffs who first made their appearance in Moore’s 2006 book A Dirty Job. Which is particularly problematic because, again, as when Sophie was a toddler (and had to save the world), the forces of darkness are gathering and appear on the edge of bringing a thundering end to life as we know it. This is important to the plot of Christopher Moore’s 2015 comic novel because the hellhounds - often referred to as the “Irish hellhounds” since that seems to sound better - are the protectors of seven-year-old Sophie who is Death with a Capital D, or, as she shouts in a bit of a tantrum, quoting from the Bhagavad Gita:Įxcept, maybe, she isn’t Big-D Death any more. Early on, in Secondhand Souls, the report comes from one character to another that the hellhounds are gone.
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