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 daughte...
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Feb 10, 2012
Lou
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Seven years and counting your cherished daughter, has been gone. You buried an empty casket, you need closure, you need to put her body to rest.
It must be unimaginable the grief, memories and the sorrow that you have to deal with on a daily basis. The vengeance and the anger must be an unrelenting force. Still you keep your job answering calls as a dispatcher, calls of others in need, calls of emergencies. Meanwhile your life fragments and disappears slowly before you.
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It must be unimaginable the grief, memories and the sorrow that you have to deal with on a daily basis. The vengeance and the anger must be an unrelenting force. Still you keep your job answering calls as a dispatcher, calls of others in need, calls of emergencies. Meanwhile your life fragments and disappears slowly before you.
What can our ma More...
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Feb 18, 2012
Charlotte
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Sometimes after reading several books like I've Got Your Number, you need a good gritty novel to "cleanse you pallet".
The Dispatcher is as gritty as they come!
Ian Hunt traded in the big city police force for a job as a dispatcher in a backwoods Texas town. He got divorced from his third wife shortly after their young daughter disappeared. They recently had her declared legally dead and had a funeral for her More...
Sometimes after reading several books like I've Got Your Number, you need a good gritty novel to "cleanse you pallet".
The Dispatcher is as gritty as they come!
Ian Hunt traded in the big city police force for a job as a dispatcher in a backwoods Texas town. He got divorced from his third wife shortly after their young daughter disappeared. They recently had her declared legally dead and had a funeral for her More...
Dec 14, 2011
Amy
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Winner of the New Blood Dagger Award, Ryan Jahn certainly has the gift to begin a suspense novel by setting hearts on edge the second the book is opened.
This new novel focuses on Ian Hunt who works as a police dispatcher out of Bulls Mouth, Texas. Ian hasn’t had the best life, thus far. His poor daughter was kidnapped when she was only seven-years-old. Another seven years has gone by and Ian still holds the innate hope that Maggie is still alive out there somewhere, even though t More...
This new novel focuses on Ian Hunt who works as a police dispatcher out of Bulls Mouth, Texas. Ian hasn’t had the best life, thus far. His poor daughter was kidnapped when she was only seven-years-old. Another seven years has gone by and Ian still holds the innate hope that Maggie is still alive out there somewhere, even though t More...
Jan 26, 2012
Shelleyrae
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I saw a review of The Dispatcher in my RSS feed st Jenn's Book Shelves but since it was past the publication date I thought it would no longer be available. To my surprise it was still listed so I decided to request it anyway and to my surprise I was approved a few days later. It was both the premise and Jenn's review that I found intriguing. A small town emergency dispatcher receives a call from a phone box, his daughter, who has been missing for seven years, is begging for his help. With singl
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Jan 14, 2012
Christina (A Reader of Fictions)
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On first look, and perhaps the next several looks as well, The Dispatcher is a gritty story of revenge, of vigilante justice. It reads somewhat like an episode of CSI, Law and Order or Criminal Minds, if those were told from the perspective of a third person narrator, so that the audience knows what every party is thinking. Violence, action, and horrible people abound.
More than that, though, this book is a study in psychology and human nature. Jahn considers what humans are capable o More...
More than that, though, this book is a study in psychology and human nature. Jahn considers what humans are capable o More...
Feb 11, 2012
Caitlin
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I wanted to read The Dispatcher because the story sounded like it would be good and because I panned the author's first book, Good Neighbors (yes, I know it won an award). Most of my issues with Good Neighbors had to do with some authorial and metafictional choices, but were mostly rooted in the fact that he was writing about the Kitty Genovese murder and I think Harlan Ellison wrote the definitive fictional work on that in his short story, The Whimper of Whipped Dogs. What I did know was that
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Feb 15, 2012
Richard
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This is a powerful story of love lost and found in the person of Ian Hunt and his daughter, kidnapped over 7 years ago when she was seven years old.
Through her own tenacity, as well as her dad's she is reunited with her parents.
What happens in the last few days of her captivity is a blood bath leaving at least 9 dead or in serious condition, not counting the babies that died in the years before the last "Sarah" was kidnapped.
To think that all this time you More...
Through her own tenacity, as well as her dad's she is reunited with her parents.
What happens in the last few days of her captivity is a blood bath leaving at least 9 dead or in serious condition, not counting the babies that died in the years before the last "Sarah" was kidnapped.
To think that all this time you More...
Feb 08, 2012
Heather
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I don't think I've actually written a review on here, but I wanted to type out a quick one regarding this book because it was such a disappointment and I'll want to remember why. This is a crime-thriller that falls flat, the plot is realistic enough but the author has absolutely no talent with character development. Physically, you can picture them just fine, but you don't grow any attachment for the protagonists beyond hoping there'll be a good ending. The ending's honestly rather quick and lam
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Jan 18, 2012
Nancy
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A kidnapped child who has been missing and presumed dead for 7 years calls 911 and begs for help. Unlike many recent stories in the news this is not really about the kidnapped child. Instead it is about a father who turns his back on all he knows about right and wrong and does whatever it takes to get his daughter back. It is a deadly, violent and bloody chase that will only end with his death or the rescue of his daughter.
A gripping, but violent, thriller about a father’s no holds b More...
A gripping, but violent, thriller about a father’s no holds b More...
Jan 12, 2012
Jen
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I got a heavy flavor of the Denzel Washington movie, Man on Fire, while reading this book. The central character's daughter Maggie manages to make contact during a short-lived escape attempt after 7 years of imprisonment with her kidnappers, Henry and Beatrice. This kick-starts a chain of events, culminating in a cross-state chase to rescue her. During this chase Ian, her father, fights with horrific injuries and it is pretty much only his grim determination that carries him through.
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Jan 26, 2012
Erica
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This was an alright book; good story, fairly fast paced and written well. I've read several other reviews that describe it as gritty and very violent. Perhaps I've read too many graphic mysteries, but the violence wasn't that graphic.
I did feel that the author wrote it as if picturing it as an action movie. I also found the the father rockin' the end with all his injuries a bit unrealistic (kind of like in an action movie).
I did feel that the author wrote it as if picturing it as an action movie. I also found the the father rockin' the end with all his injuries a bit unrealistic (kind of like in an action movie).
Jan 28, 2012
Johnhaup
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The writing throughout consistently feels amatuerish in an attempt to sound profound and edgy. It was a quick, fun read, but definitely nowhere near a Mccarthy novel, as the back cover review suggests. Give it a go if you have a free afternoon and your Blu-ray of The Town is scratched, otherwise move on.
Jan 28, 2012
Kerry
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Decent story....and I have to agree 100% with a previous review posted...Diego was by far my favorite character in the book. What I could have done without was was graphic content/gore.
Jan 07, 2012
Charlotte
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This book was awful. The writing, the consistency, it was just awful.
Jan 12, 2012
Sally
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I didn't really like the main character Ian Hunt but liked Diego who gets drawn into Ian's plans through no fault of his own. It is a bit gory in places but a fast paced story.
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