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Overview

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.

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The opening of this dark thriller grabs readers as Ian Hunt, a police dispatcher in Bulls Mouth, TX, gets a call from his dead daughter. Kidnapped when she was seven years old and presumed dead after seven years, Maggie, now 14, briefly escapes her captors and calls her father, sending Ian on a frantic quest to find her. The grotesque couple who snatched Maggie lead him on a chase across the Southwest. Jahn, a screenwriter whose previous novels (e.g., Good Neighbors) are based on well-known true crimes, uses shifting points of view to reveal the thoughts and emotions of characters on both sides of the law. Several graphically described murders, including Ian's own torture of a witness, provide a grim backdrop as he goes to lengths to regain his daughter—and perhaps redeem himself. VERDICT The constant use of the present tense, several unlikely or unexplained incidents, and some banal philosophy hinder what is surely a cinematic tale (No Country for Old Men, anyone?) of desperate acts and desperate people who repulse rather than intrigue us.—Roland Person, formerly with Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale
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Seven years after his daughter vanishes from her bedroom, and two months after he's finally agreed to a funeral for her, a Texas police dispatcher gets a phone call that turns his world upside down. Unlike his ex-wife Debbie, Ian Hunt never gave up hope that their daughter, who was only seven when someone sliced the screen in her bedroom window and carried her off, might still be alive. So when a frantic young woman calling herself "Sarah…No, my name is Maggie, Maggie Hunt" phones 911 and says that she's just escaped from the man who's been holding her prisoner, Ian is ready to leap into action. Unfortunately, Henry Dean spots her and snatches her again before she can identify him to her father. But a trick of fate is about to lead Chief Todd Davis, of the Bulls Mouth Police Department, and Tonkawa County Sheriff's Deputy Bill Finch, who just happens to be Debbie's second husband, straight to Dean's door. Not even the bloody showdown that follows can slow down Ian once he's scented his quarry and confirmed that the precious daughter he left in her brother's care while he and Debbie went on a married-folks' date is alive and looking for him. A scene as harrowing as anything in Good Neighbors (2011) offers graphic proof that he'll stop at absolutely nothing to track her down. Bullets and pages fly furiously as Ian pursues Dean, his fragile wife Beatrice and Maggie across the Southwest to Kaiser, Calif., where a final confrontation with Dean and his equally well-armed brother Ron awaits. "This isn't how it was supposed to happen," think Jahn's luckless characters over and over again. Wrong. For fans of action-packed suspense, this is exactly how it's supposed to happen.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780143120704
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 12/27/2011
  • Pages: 368
  • Sales rank: 26,998
  • Product dimensions: 5.12 (w) x 8.24 (h) x 0.68 (d)

Meet the Author

Ryan David Jahn won the Crime Writers Association debut novel prize for Good Neighbors. Born in 1979, he grew up in Arizona, Texas, and California and now lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

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  • Posted January 5, 2012

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    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 5, 2012

    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 15, 2012

    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 1, 2012

    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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