The Dispatcher: Murder by Other Means
Books | Fiction / Science Fiction / Crime & Mystery
3.9
John Scalzi
"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 running out of time: to solve the mystery of these deaths, to keep others from dying, and to keep himself from being a victim of what looks like murder, by other means."--
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Author
John Scalzi
Pages
192
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Published Date
2021-04-30
ISBN
1645240177 9781645240174
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