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Title: The Journeyman
File Format: eBook
Completed: December 2002
eBook version: Autumn 2010

The Journeyman is a darkly comic fantasy, and the sequel to The Apprentice / Damned If You Do, It revisits the story of the undead narrator as he tries to find meaning in his mundane existence.

Our zombie hero is now employed as a hapless gofer in a third-rate burger joint. Ignored by his work colleagues and ridiculed by his employers, he is nonetheless content to endure this dreary half-life in exchange for the anonymity and security it brings. However, this contentment is soon shattered by the surprising and unwelcome arrival of Death, his former employer. Death has a proposition which the zombie finds impossible to refuse...

The narrative follows him for the next three days, as he assists the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in delivering a host of corpses to their final resting places. As he listens to the stories of the dead, and remembers the circumstances of his own demise, his quest for the one essential quality which will truly bring him back to life becomes clearer. He doesn't quite know what he's looking for, or even if he'll find it; but once the search has begun he has no choice but to finish it.

And in the meantime, as he draws nearer to his goal, a menacing supernatural presence stalks him, waiting for him to deliver what it needs to unleash chaos and destruction in the kingdom of the living.