The Dispatcher: Murder by Other Means (Hardcover)

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Take the idea that something happens in the world and if you are murdered there is 1 in a thousand chance that you would die but the rest of the time you would show back up in your own home naked and alive. Society changes in big and little ways from it. Dispatchers now sit in on surgeries and if...

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One day, the world changed, in a simple but far-reaching way. It's now nearly impossible to intentionally kill anyone. If you kill yourself, you're dead. If you die in an accident, or of natural causes, you're dead. Butif someone intentionally kills you, 999 out of a thousand, you come back. You...

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Novella (narrated in audiobook by Zachary Quinto) about a man whose job involves killing people who might otherwise die accidentally, in a world where anyone who is deliberately killed is almost always (999/1000) resurrected at home, free of whatever injuries took place shortly before death. Deat...

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I got this free as part of the Audible Originals included in my Audible membership. This was a well done investigative story with some interesting twists. I really enjoyed the concept behind this story; it was engaging and well done. I listened to this on audiobook and the narrator did a great jo...

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What would happen if murder could no longer be committed? What would that do to society? Sometime in the near future anyone who has been murdered reappears in their home, stark naked and very much alive. This is the setting for John Scalzi's novella The Dispatcher. Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher, a ...