The Dispatcher
A Novel
by Ryan David Jahn
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Pub Date Dec 27 2011 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Penguin Group USA | Penguin Books
Description
From the author of the award-winning debut crime novel Good Neighbors--a white-knuckle thriller about the lengths a man will go to for his daughter
The phone rings. It's your daughter. She's been dead for four months.
So begins East Texas police dispatcher Ian Hunt's fight to get his daughter back. The call is cut off by the man who snatched her from her bedroom seven years ago, and a basic description of the kidnapper is all Ian has to go on. What follows is a bullet-strewn cross-country chase from Texas to California along Interstate 10- a wild ride in a 1965 Mustang that passes through the outlaw territory of No Country for Old Men and is shot through with moments of macabre violence that call to mind the novels of Thomas Harris.
Advance Praise
"Harrowing . . . graphic . . . Bullets and pages fly furiously. . . . For fans of action-packed suspense, this is exactly how it's supposed to happen." -Kirkus Reviews
"A stunning read . . . Comparisons to Tarantino and the Coen brothers seem perfectly appropriate."
-Booklist
"Violent, vivid, and disturbing, The Dispatcher is a stomach churner. If you want a book that grabs you-almost chokes you-and won't let go, this is it. But it should come with a warning label: Caution, a serious writer at work."-Ridley Pearson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killer Summer
"The Dispatcher grabs the reader on page one and never lets go. It's a classic yet bracingly contemporary story of kidnapping, violence, and a father's ferocious courage." -Jonathan Santlofer, author of Anatomy of Fear
"A well-written, fast-paced book . . . along the order Quentin Tarantino, with a long and bloody trail to the end." -Charlaine Harris, bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series
"Those with an appetite for unrelieved violence and gore will be most satisfied." -Publishers Weekly
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780143120704 |
| PRICE | $22.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 368 |
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