Booklog 14/2022: John Scalzi: Murder by Other Means – The Dispatcher #2

[jacey]

Audiobook. 3 hours and 33 minutes. I enjoyed the first Dispatcher book so much that I went straight on to the second in the Dispatcher series. Tony Valdez, licensed dispatcher, kills people who are on the point of death in order to save their lives. (999 times out of 1000, murdered people reappear, naked and alive, in their own beds.) There's a grey area, however, and it pays good money. This is two years on from the events in the first dispatcher story and Valdez is a little down on his luck and taking jobs that are closer to the dark end of the grey area. He's standing in line at his bank to pay in some of his money from a strictly cash job when there's a robbery. The robbers try to get away by shooting each other so they reappear in their own safe space, except that one of them in the one out of a thousand who stays dead… and Tony knows him. Shortly after that, people start to die by suicide (suicides stay dead) and Tony ends up unofficially working with Langdon again, trying to sort it all out before more people die. Well read by Zachary Quinto.