The Dispatcher
An adreline rush, that will hook you from page one
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Beschreibung des Verlags
‘A one-sitting, fist-in-mouth read’ – The Guardian
The phone rings. It’s your daughter. She’s been dead for four months.
Ian Hunt is the police dispatcher for the small town of Bulls Mouth, East Texas. Just as his shift is ending, he gets a call from his fourteen-year-old daughter, Maggie.
Maggie, who has just been declared dead, having been snatched from her bedroom seven years ago. Her call ends in a scream.
The trail leads to a local couple, but this is just the start of his battle to get his daughter back. What follows is a bullet-strewn cross-country chase along Interstate 10, from Texas to California.
Soon to be adapted by Apple TV+, The Dispatcher is a darkly propulsive, action-fueled crime thriller from Ryan David Jahn – the acclaimed author of Acts of Violence and Low Life – about the lengths a man will go to for his daughter.
Perfect for fans of Lee Child and Taken.
Praise for The Dispatcher
‘Talk about page-turning’ – Daily Mirror
‘The author leads the new noir pack’ – Financial Times
‘If you only read one book tomorrow, make it this one’ – GQ
‘A breathless, bloody chase all the way to California’ – The Sunday Telegraph
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Jahn's relentlessly grim vigilante novel, Ian Hunt, a police dispatcher in Bulls Mouth, Tex., receives a phone call from his presumed dead daughter, Maggie, who was kidnapped seven years earlier at age seven by Henry Dean, a twisted and sadistic neighbor who left no clues. The girl has just a little time to speak before she's cut off. Hunt goes on a determined and merciless quest to find Maggie, starting in Bulls Mouth, a truly benighted hamlet replete with faltering businesses and emotionally damaged citizens. The body count is high, but the suspense is minimal, since Jahn (Good Neighbors) keeps the reader privy to Dean's actions and plans. The inept, negligent police are usually drunk, and Hunt's stubborn and inexplicable insistence on not asking for aid in his single-minded pursuit of his daughter and her captor defies logic. Those with an appetite for unrelieved violence and gore will be most satisfied.
