Mike notices Tommy is acting strange and soon he finds out why. There is some happiness and, sadly, some heartache. Having escaped the facility where the tainted flu shots were created, and after evading the clutches of Deneaux in the last volume the Talbots are reunited at Ron's. I have listened to every Mark Tufo publication on here and I've decided that I want to be like Mike Talbot (or Mark Tufo) when I grow up and I want Sean Runnette to tell people about my adventures. Every voice has its own face and that's Sean's imagining of what they sound like, imagine, that voice in your head and your own imagination will make its face because its familiar. If nothing else, stay with it just to hear Trip. He is Mike but more to the point, he is BT, Gary, Ron, Tommy, MJ and even Mrs D. He doesn't read the book, he performs it. I would recommend this series to anyone who enjoys comedy more than horror or, horror more than suspense or, suspense more than adventure or even, adventure more than comedy. almost sure, he wouldn't say in real life. Mark has the ability to captivate his audience with his writing style and his half cocked, skewed version of a universe that is inhabited by an alter ego that says things out loud that I'm sure.
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