Excellent book! Published in 2009 but so appropriate for today’s world. The Mom searching for her son and the Canadian Mountie searching for redemption combine with the very scary world of radical jihadists in an exciting thriller. ( )

Good read. Kept me wanting to turn the page and read what happens next.

Canadian policeman is determined to find how a family of three died after being found drowned in what was supposedly a boating accident in a Canadian river. Meanwhile, the Pope is visiting Montana, a woman is desperately looking for her son, and in Iraq, a woman, who lost her family in a brutal attack by Americans, saves the life of an American contractor.

Mofina takes the story from Canada to the Middle East to Italy to America and with various interesting characters, all finally looking for where the next terrorist attack will take place. A real page-turner. ( )

Rick Mofina is another great author, like Baldacci in my opinion. Great pacing and suspense. Six Seconds is my favorite book of Mofina's so far. I look forward to reading more though. ( )

Started with a bang and lost steam about halfway through. Still pretty good. ( )

(ARC from MIRA)

5 stars!

ISBN-10: 0778326128; 13: 978-0778326120
Publish date: January 1, 2009
Paperback; 496 pages; $6.99
Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
Recommended for: those who enjoy rollercoaster-like suspense thrillers

Six Seconds is so taut with tension you won’t be able to put it down

Hold your breath while reading the latest thriller by Canadian author Rick Mofina. The opening prologue of Six Seconds will give you chills and sets up the novel for a relentless, mind-blowing resolution.

Samara is an Iraqi nurse who witnesses the brutal slaying of her husband and young son. Overwrought with grief, she is easily influenced by a terrorist group and becomes a willing pawn in an assassination plot. Samara manipulates Jake Conlin, an America contract driver suffering from post-traumatic distress, and convinces him to leave his wife and take his son to start a new life with her in Montana. Little does anyone know, she’s planning on ‘going out’ in a blaze of glory―and she plans to take others with her.

When Maggie Conlin discovers her husband and son have disappeared, she teams up with Corporal Daniel Graham of Canada’s RCMP. He’s investigating the strange disappearance and subsequent murder of an American family holidaying near Banff, Alberta. Clues lead him to the small town of Blue Rose Creek, California, where the Conlins reside and where he meets Maggie. Fighting his own dark shadows from the past, Graham decides to help Maggie locate her missing husband and son.

In a terrifying novel that sweeps across countries and continents, Six Seconds is a story of war, vengeance and terrorism. It explores the war in Iraq and its damaging affect on everyone involved―from soldiers to terrorists to the innocent―and the repercussions that are felt long afterward. It’s also the story of painful loss, guilt and redemption sought by people who are worlds apart and separated by culture and personal beliefs.

I’d recommend Six Seconds to anyone who enjoys rollercoaster-like suspense thrillers. Reading this novel is like watching a ticking time bomb. You know it’s going to blow; you even know where and when, but all the while you’re praying for some form of divine intervention. Rick Mofina has chosen a timely topic and added intriguing characters to the mix, creating a novel that is taut with tension, complex and disturbingly convincing.

Cheryl Kaye Tardif, critically acclaimed author of The River
http://www.cherylktardif.com ( )