The Dispatcher

An Explosive edge of your seat thriller

Ian Hunt is a shell of the man he once was his life changed for the worse seven years ago when his daughter Maggie was kidnapped from her bedroom, she was seven years old and the fallout didn’t stop with the kidnapping. Working as a police dispatcher Ian receives a call that will once again change his life. What would you do if you got a call from your dead daughter, Ian will have to answer that question and face the consequences that go with it.
Maggie Hunt has lived the last seven years of her life in a Nightmare World, the people who took her keep her locked away, scared and often in harms way until one day they leave the door unlocked and she escapes, makes a crucial 911 call before she is recaptured and the nightmare starts all over again. But now she has something that she hasn’t had in a long time, she has hope. Hope that her daddy will rescue her, hope that he will not rest until she is in the loving arms of the family that she was ripped away from.
What would you do?

Mr. Jahn gives us a thriller that’s as good as I’ve ever read, a plot of a world that no parent, in fact no one wants to get up close and personal with. His dialogue will take us into the seedier side of life and death with no holds barred, where his narrative is brutally beautiful and his scenes come alive to his readers. His characters will shine from his slightly noir-ish Ian to his sadistic villains and to the magic of Maggie and all the others as well as he clearly and succinctly lets us into their hearts and their minds. He takes us on a journey where the outcome is always just out of our reach, but reach we must.
If you like the writing of Michael Connelly, Andrew Gross or Nelson DeMill, you will love Ryan David Jahn, if you need that edge of your seat, nail biting drama where the bloodier and guttier the better you’ll love this novel. And then just keep asking yourself, What would you do?

5 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

Must read

Storyline is terrific. Every parent should read this book. Holds your interest till the end.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Very Good Book!

Very good book would of liked to see the ending a little different. but worth the money to purchase.

Not a bad read but not worth the money.

Not a bad read but not worth the money.

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A Modern Day Western

The Dis­patcher by Ryan David Jahn is a fic­tional thriller which takes the reader from ­Texas to Ari­zona. I could not put this book down, it moves fast and furi­ous.

Dis­patcher Ian Hunt wears a uni­form but does not con­sider him­self a police man. One day Ian answers a 911 call only to real­ize he is talk­ing to his daugh­ter who has been abducted from his home seven years before.

Going on a bul­let rid­den chase from Texas to Cal­i­for­nia, this macabre, vio­lent ride in a 1965 Mus­tang will pit a man against him­self, the dessert, the law, the abduc­tor and any­thing that comes between him and his daughter.

I could hardly put down The Dis­patcher by Ryan David Jahn (web­site). The first chap­ter, where Ian Hunt answers a 911 call only to real­ize he is talk­ing with his daugh­ter who was kid­napped sev­eral years before was the per­fect start to this excit­ing book.

Read­ing this book I had a clear image of a Coen Broth­ers / Quentin Taran­tino movie in mind. The char­ac­ters are gritty, well defined and for a few pages I thought I could even smell them. The scenery, con­sist­ing mainly of the desert, is per­fect and the plot is tight and moves fast.

This is a story about a man doing every­thing pos­si­ble to save his 14-year-old daugh­ter from a weird cou­ple. Mr. Jahn man­ages to cre­ate an atmos­phere of ten­sion and unpre­dictabil­ity as sus­tain­ing that sense for the major­ity of the book.

The plot is told from a view point of three peo­ple, Ian Hunt, his daugh­ter Mag­gie and her abduc­tor. The fury of this book and the fear which the authors man­age to cap­ture some­how jus­tify the twisted logic many of the char­ac­ters have.

The grief that Ian feels after his daugh­ter been abducted is heart wrench­ing, we watch Ian’s life and fam­ily fall apart. We are wit­nesses to the way he destroyed his rela­tion­ship with his teenage son and Ian’s weak attempts to res­ur­rect it.

Mag­gie, four­teen and abducted for sev­eral years, is a spunky girl who has noth­ing to lose. The character’s strength was admirable and filled with desperation.

Henry sim­ply wants to make his wife happy – oth­er­wise he is a total scum­bag. The most fas­ci­nat­ing part of this book was giv­ing this mon­ster or a man some human qualities.

Many books are about the rela­tion­ship chil­dren have with their moth­ers, but this one is about a father and daugh­ter. Maybe that’s why this book really hit all the right cords with me. I couldn’t imag­ine any­thing hap­pen­ing to my daugh­ter and I know I’ll go to the ends of the earth for her (despite that she has been a bit fresh lately / 7 going on 17).

The Dis­patcher is a mod­ern day west­ern, a bat­tle between two men pro­tect­ing their families

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So SO

Fair. Slow in places. Needs more action.

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Really enjoyed the book.

The book had an interesting structure and pace. The story was told from several points of view and had interesting characters. Worth the read.

good story, hard to follow

It's not a bad book. It's a little hard to follow with all the jumping around.

It's like they'll change chapter, or even location with no warning what so ever. Where most books will show a bit of a break, even if in the same chapter, this one will just change paragraph, leaving your wondering if you missed something.

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