Audiobook Review: Travel by Bullet by John Scalzi (The Dispatcher #3)

Travel by Bullet
Series: The Dispatcher #3
Author: John Scalzi

Narrator: Zachary Quinto
Published: September 1, 2022
Audiobook: 3 hours 43 minutes

Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: October 13-15, 2022
Jessica’s Rating: 5 stars

Book Description:

The world has changed. Now, when someone is murdered, they almost always come back to life—and there are professionals, called “dispatchers,” who kill in order to save lives, to give those near the end a second chance. Tony Valdez is a dispatcher, and he has never been busier.

But for as much as the world has changed, some things have stayed the same. Greed, corruption and avarice are still in full swing. When Tony is called to a Chicago emergency room by an old friend and fellow dispatcher, he is suddenly and unwillingly thrown into a whirlpool of schemes and plots involving billions of dollars, with vast caches of wealth ranging from real estate to cryptocurrency up for grabs.

All Tony wants to do is keep his friend safe. But it’s hard to do when friends keep secrets, enemies offer seductive deals, and nothing is ever what it seems. The world has changed… but the stakes are still life and death.

Jessica’s Review: 

Scalzi is back with a third Dispatcher novel and Quinto narrates again! And this one is a recent release too! This new novella seems even more real because the pandemic is brought into play and affected this world as well as ours! It affected a dispatcher’s job too, and we get to see this mentioned.  And wearing a mask is commonplace in this world as it can be in our world, with people choosing to wear masks whenever they are out.

The world is much darker too with the rich/elite/villains taking advantage of ‘murder’ and the 99.9% chance of coming back by ‘traveling by bullet’, hence the title of this new novella. This world has so much more greed, corruption, and death manipulation than what we have now and if this actually happened I can see our world becoming like Tony’s world.

These novellas are fast paced, and enjoyable! You like Tony, but is he as good as we think?  Quinto is the perfect Tony and I really want to see these stories play on tv with him starring!

I hope Scalzi gives us more Dispatcher novellas!  This series is one to make you think a lot about this world, and Scalzi has done a brilliant job of bringing us into it.

Purchase Links:
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