An undead monster hunter must track down a killer,
trailer-park-havoc-wreaking were-frog in this outrageous mash-up of Jim
Butcher's urban fantasy and George Romero's zombie horror.
Before he died, Saelig Zilch was a chef. Now, posthumously recruited by
a shadowy agency for reasons still unknown, tasked with keeping the
public safe from things that go bump in the night, he hunts monsters.
Zilch scrabbles out of a North Carolina grave in someone else's body.
Someone recently dead. He only has a few days to find his bearings and
carry out his latest mission, before the precious few nanobugs in his
corpse shell are exhausted and he's forced to start all over at the
beginning. As he trudges down the main thoroughfare, he runs into
Galavance. More accurately, she runs into him with her pink Chevy
Cavalier.
A case of unfortunate timing? Maybe not. Turns out the critter Zilch has
been dispatched to dispatch of--a murderous were-frog--squelches
uncomfortably close to the trailer Galavance calls home. And come to
think of it, Galavance's boyfriend Jolby has been spending a lot of
nights out lately . . .
Stuffing gross-out humor, greasy fast food, and psychedelic amphibians
into a blender on high, Aftertaste is a wild ride through life,
afterlife, and the American South.
