Murder by Other Means

The Dispatcher

Hardcover, 192 pages

Published April 29, 2021 by Subterranean.

ISBN:
978-1-64524-017-4
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Welcome to the new world, in which murder is all but a thing of the past. Because when someone kills you, 999 times out of 1,000, you instantly come back to life. In this world, there are dispatchers—licensed killers who step in when you’re at risk of a natural or unintentional death. They kill you—so you can live.

Tony Valdez is used to working his job as a dispatcher within the rules of the law and the state. But times are tough, and more and more Tony finds himself riding the line between what’s legal and what will pay his bills. After one of these shady gigs and after being a witness to a crime gone horribly wrong, Tony discovers that people around him are dying, for reasons that make no sense...and which just may implicate him.

Tony is out of time: to solve the mystery of these deaths, to …

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4 stars

Samlet anmeldelse af den her og bog to i serien:

Jeg er blevet lidt forelsket i Scalzi efter at have givet ham en lang pause. Hans Old Mans War er jo en klassiker (hans debut) og jeg læse lidt af ham den gang, men så glemte jeg ham...

The Dispatcher og Murder by Other Means er bog et og to i samme univers, hvor vi følger Tony der arbejder som Dispatcher. I en nær fremtid, sker der pludseligt det mærkeligt at folk som bliver dræbt, godt nok dør, men et øjeblik efter vågner de op i deres eget hjem uden men, og kan forsættet (og den dræbte krop forsvinder). Ingen ved hvorfor, og "reglerne" er lidt usikre, men 999 ud af 1000 gange overlever man altså hvis man bliver dræbt. Men man skal dræbes. Uheld, selvmord, sygdom tæller ikke. Og her kommer Tony (og hans andre Dispatcher kollegaer) så ind …

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4 stars

I wanted more of this world and like magic Scalzi granted it. This one was not as difficult to solve early as the last, but I like the world and the mystery. How does one commit murder when the murdered always come back? I also really like Quinto as the narrator. More please.

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