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The Dispatcher

by John Scalzi
1 MP3-CD. 2 hrs. Brilliance. May 2017. ISBN 9781543601022. $9.99. SF
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In the very near future, murder has become nearly impossible: for reasons unknown, anyone killed deliberately vanishes and reappears, naked and unharmed, in their home. Death only happens by accident, old age, or illness. Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher—a professional licensed to mercy-kill those near death so they can be transported to safety. When a former colleague of Valdez's goes missing, he teams up with a Chicago police detective to uncover the truth. Everyone has something to hide in the short novella's world of billionaires, gangsters, and other suspects, and when murder is impossible, the villains just have to get creative. Narrator Zachary Quinto reads the story with a wry edge suited to Scalzi's twisted film-noir plot and dry humor.
VERDICT Recommended for fans of the author and mystery readers who enjoy a dash of the paranormal.
Reviewed by Jason Puckett, Georgia State Univ. Lib., Atlanta , May 01, 2017
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