title: The Dispatcher: A Novel
author:  Ryan David Jahn 
description: Ian Hunt, balding and big-bellied, is a chair jockey in a small-town police department in East Texas. He answers the phone and sometimes dispatches a cop car, but mostly he plays computer solitaire and mourns his daughter, who disappeared years ago. That mysteryWas it abduction? Or murder?has cored out his life. His wife ditched him. Hes estranged from his son. He inhales Guinness. Then his daughter calls. Shes escaped her abductor; can Daddy rescue her from the bad man? It isnt that easy. But Hunt is on the trail. The rest of the book is so luridly violent that the publishers comparisons to Tarantino and the Coen brothers seem perfectly appropriate. The writing has a sensory feelthe texture of a dress, the gurgle of a drainbut Jahn gets a little carried away, as when he revels in descriptions of body stink, of flicking belly-button lint and washing in saliva (somebody elses). Still, the chases, the gun battles, and the images of a sun-blasted land add up to a stunning read. But not before dinner. --Don Crinklaw
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  Title: The Dispatch Carrier and Memoirs of Andersonville Prison  
    
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