2009 # 33

Rick Mofina - Six Seconds - Finished - 3/1/2009

PB A terrorist/suspense novel. Daniel Graham is an off duty detective with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. While camping in the western mountains he sees and hears evidence of a search under way and then spots a small figure clinging to a rock in the middle of a rapidly flowing river. With little thought he plunges in and manages to reach a young girl and hold her while trying to attract the attention of a circling helicopter.

Maggie Conlin lives in California with her husband Jake and 9 year old son Logan. Jake has returned from a job as a contract driver in Iraq and is a troubled man. After several temper blowups he takes off with Logan and disappears. Maggie is left wondering what happened and looking for help searching for them from police, private investigators and finally a phsycic.

Samara is a nurse and mother with British and Iraq citizenship. Her family is killed in an attack in their home in Iraq and she is raped. In her grief and anger she comes under the control of a radical terrorist organization and films a martyrÕs suicide statement.

Follow these three people as their paths lead them together in the final chapters of a plot for revenge on US soil.

It was a good read, kept me interested to the end.

ISBN - 978-0-7783-2612-0, Suspense, Pages - 488, Print Size - R, Rating -