Travel by Bullet by John ScalziMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Travel by Bullet (The Dispatcher #3), by John Scalzi, 2022
Third in the Dispatcher series, Travel by Bullet is an Audible Original narrated by Zachary Quinto. The story seems to take place in our current timeline or very close to it, along with Teslas, Cryptos, and post-Covid pandemic (is that really over though???).
Tony is our hero, a "dispatcher" in a hospital emergency room, and is unwillingly thrown into a web of shady schemes and plots involving billions of dollars, Cryptocurrencies, real estate scams, and murders-- or is it really murders?. Dispatchers have the job of essentially killing a person and sending them back in time earlier in the day.
Short, fun, and entertaining. Mostly a detective-like mystery storyline with a touch of sci-fi for the plot device (more of a plot voucher, actually). A villain triangle (as opposed to a love triangle) was effectively used to move the story to a conclusion. A self-referencing (in a meta kind of way) MacGuffin was even thrown in for good measure.
I've enjoyed very few Audible originals, and this is one of them. I'm such a fan of Scalzi, but I needed something new and different from his Interdepency space opera series, and this satiated my appetite.
I rate this audiobook 4 out of 5 stars.
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