Free Audio Book : The Bad Weather Friend, By Dean Koontz

Benny Catspaw, known for his ceaselessly cheerful demeanor, finds his positivity challenged when he loses his employment, his good name, his betrothed, and his cherished chair. He’s not suffering from paranoia. Someone is targeting him. He’s just clueless about who it is or the reason behind it. Then, Benny receives a legacy from an uncle he’s never met: a colossal crate and a video message. Everything will fall into place eventually.

How peculiar—although it’s a boon, assures his uncle. Even more bizarre is the contents of the crate. It’s a seven-foot-tall entity who refers to himself as a “bad weather friend” named Spike, whose purpose is to assist individuals who are excessively virtuous for this world. Spike will handle it. He’ll locate Benny’s adversaries. He’ll confront them. This might be gratifying if Spike wasn’t such an intimidating figure with horrifying methods of coercion.

Accompanied by Spike and a captivated young waitress who is also a budding private investigator named Harper, Benny embarks on a dangerous high-velocity escapade, something a respectable man like him would never have imagined.