Publisher's Synopsis
In this stunning, fantastical debut novel from a bold new voice in the bestselling traditions of Christopher Moore and Jasper Fforde, a ferryman for the dead finds his existence unraveling after making either the best decision or the biggest mistake of his immortal life.Ferryman Charlie Dawson saves dead peoplesomebody has to convince them to move on to the afterlife, after all. Having never failed a single assignment, he's acquired a reputation for success thats as legendary as it is unwanted. It turns out that serving as a Ferryman is causing Charlie to slowly lose his mind. Deemed too valuable by the Ferryman Institute to be let go and too stubborn to just give up in his own right, Charlies pretty much abandoned all hope of escaping his grim existence. Or he had, anyway, until he saved Alice Spiegel. To be fair, Charlie never planned on stopping Alice from taking her own lifethat sort of thing is strictly forbidden by the Institutebut he never planned on the President secretly giving him the choice to, either. Charlies not quite sure what to make of it, but Alice is alive, and its the first time hes felt right in more than two hundred years. When word of the incident reaches Inspector Javrouche, the Ferryman Institute's resident internal affairs liaison, Charlie finds he's in a world of trouble. But Charlies not about to lose the only living, breathing person hes ever saved without a fight. Hes ready to protect her from Javrouche and save Alice from herself, and hes willing to put the entire continued existence of mankind at risk to do it. Written in the same vein as bestselling modern classics such as The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde and A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore, The Ferryman Institute is a thrilling supernatural adventure packed with wit and humor.
