What a treat! This brand-new audiobook is currently available FREE from Audible. How can you resist? 
 Narrated by actor Zachary Quinto, The Dispatcher is a brief novella that has an immediate hook. The intrigue starts with the opening scene -- why is the main character insisting on being allowed into an operating room, and why is the surgeon so angry about it? 
 As the story unfolds, we learn about the new normal, in which anyone who dies via murder comes back -- so that someone deemed irreversibly ill or injured requires the services of a Dispatcher, someone who will intentionally kill the near-death person so they can resume their lives. It's a totally legal and licensed profession, except when a Dispatcher pick up a little gray-area work on the side. 
 As the mystery of Tony's missing friend unfolds, we follow his work with a detective to uncover the seamier side of Dispatching and their race against time to find the missing man before he dies a permanent death. Meanwhile, while the story has many of the tropes of a noir detective story, we're treated to one odd scenario after another in which we learn just how much our world changes when death is no longer final. 
 I won't give away anything further. The Dispatcher is an absolutely glorious audiobook experience. The pacing and plot are fabulous, and Quinto's narration is pretty much spot on (although his voice for a goonish bodyguard is perhaps too goofy, and his women tend to the breathy end of the vocal spectrum). Still, his reading of the story is terrifically enjoyable, with just the right emphases and pauses and intonations to make it fun and suspenseful. 
 What are you waiting for? It's FREE. And it's great. If sci-fi/speculative fiction is at all your thing, you owe it to yourself to check out The Dispatcher. 
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