The Dispatcher
2016 • 2h 18m

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One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life. Tony Valdez is a Dispatchera licensed, bonded professional whose job is to humanely dispatch those whose circumstances put them in death's crosshairs, so they can have a second chance to avoid the reaper. But when a fellow Dispatcher and former friend is apparently kidnapped, Tony learns that there are some things that are worse than death, and that some people are ready to do almost anything to avenge what they see as a wrong. It's a race against time for Valdez to find his friend before it's too late-- before not even a Dispatcher can save him.--Jacket flap.

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The Dispatcher

The Dispatcher is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by John Scalzi.


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This was a great novella. Quinto does great on the audio narration and the dialog is classic Scalzi. Loved it!

May 21, 2018

Will review at www.fantasyliterature.com.

November 4, 2016

Very light-weight novella doing Scalzi at his peak: genre-blending noir and scifi with snappy dialogue and easy reading. It's designed to be an audiobook, and probably better in that medium, but I'm busy and this is a 30 minute read v. 3 hour audiobook?

December 19, 2020