{"product_id":"the-dispatcher-isbn-9780143120704","title":"The Dispatcher","description":"\u003cb\u003e*Soon to be a six-part Apple TV+ series starring Patrick Brammell of \u003ci\u003eColin from Accounts\u003c\/i\u003e*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of the award-winning debut crime novel \u003ci\u003eGood  Neighbors\u003c\/i\u003e--a white-knuckle thriller about the lengths a man will go  to for his daughter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe phone rings. It's your daughter. She's been dead for four  months.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSo 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 \u003ci\u003eNo Country  for Old Men\u003c\/i\u003e and is shot through with moments of macabre violence  that call to mind the novels of Thomas Harris.\"Violent, vivid, and disturbing, \u003ci\u003eThe Dispatcher\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eKiller  Summer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Dispatcher\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" — \u003cb\u003eJonathan Santlofer, author of \u003ci\u003eAnatomy of Fear\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A well-written, fast-paced book . . . along the order of Quentin Tarantino and with a long and bloody trail to the end.\" — \u003cb\u003eCharlaine Harris, bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's tales of vengeance, The Dispatcher is  an impressively accomplished performance that never strains for mythic  power but nevertheless acquires it.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The breathless pace virtually demands a single-sitting read. . . . Over  the past few years a new generation of crime writers has come perilously  close to recreating the jaded mindset of the classic noir thrillers, but  no one has succeeded quite like Jahn. . . . [He] leads the new noir pack  with a series of palm-sweating situations that pay homage to the classics  of the genre while feeling entirely fresh.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Reads at a cracking pace [and] is a one-sitting, fist-in-mouth read.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A cross between Richard Ford and James Patterson . . . I guarantee that if you pick this up, then everything else in your life will immediately be pushed to the margins. . . . If you only read one book tomorrow, make it this one.\" — \u003cb\u003eDylan Jones, editor of \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, in \u003ci\u003eThe Mail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A nerve-shredding thriller with plenty of energy and a tight plot.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBig Issue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tense, thrilling. Jahn has written a real page-turner, well crafted with  convincing characters and an involving plot.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Love This Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Near pitch perfect . . . An adrenaline-pumped storyline and one that  will leave you with your lower jaw resting on your chest. I don't believe  anyone else is offering Jahn's insight and style of writing today. . . .  [His] clipped and economical prose is to the bone. . . . Make sure you  allocate sufficient hours to read in one sitting.\" — \u003cb\u003eRhian Davies, \u003ci\u003eIt's a Crime!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Talk about page-turning . . . Jahn is the fastest rising star in the  ever-competitive crime fiction world.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e, Book of the Week\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRyan David Jahn\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Arizona, Texas, and California. He left school at sixteen to work in a record store and subsequently joined the army. Since 2004 he has worked in television and film. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eGood Neighbors\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasy (New Blood) Dagger Award. 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