Six Seconds

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. This well-crafted and timely thriller uncovers a terrorist plot stretching from the Middle East to the American West. When recently widowed Mountie Dan Graham pulls a dying girl from a river, her tremulous last words lead Dan to track down the girl's father, a washed-up conspiracy theorist reporter who has finally stumbled upon a genuine conspiracy. California bookseller Maggie Conlin searches for her husband, traumatized Iraq war contractor Jake, who has kidnapped their young son, Logan, and fled to Montana. Samara Ingram, an Iraqi-British nurse whose husband and son were brutally murdered in Baghdad by renegade Western troops, takes slow steps toward retribution. Mofina (Every Fear) shifts smoothly and deftly among their stories until all three are drawn together in the final, suspense-packed rush to prevent a devastating moment of destruction and revenge. (Jan.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. A Vengeful Woman Who Aches For Her Place In Paradise... In Iraq An Aid Worker Who Lost Her Husband And Child In A Brutal Attack Saves The Life Of An American Contractor. Believing He Can Help Her Avenge Her Family's Deaths, She Follows Him Back Home To The United States. An Anguished Mother Desperate To Find Her Child... In California A Soccer Mom Arrives To Pick Up Her Son From School, Only To Discover That Her Husband Has Taken Their Child And Vanished Without A Trace. A Detective Who Needs To Redeem Himself... In The Rocky Mountains An Off-duty Cop Rescues A Little Girl From A Raging River Moments Before She Utters Her Final Words In His Arms. Haunted By Failure, He Launches An Investigation That Leads Him To A Montana School Where Time Is Ticking Down On An Event That Will Rewrite History.... Three Strangers Entangled In A Plot To Change The World In Only Six Seconds... Mountie Dan Graham tracks down a washed-up conspiracy theorist reporter who has stumbled on the real thing. Meanwhile California bookseller Maggie Collin searches for her son, kidnapped by her husband--a traumatized contractor from the Iraqi war who has fled to Montana. And Samara Ingram, an Iraqi-British nurse whose husband and son were murdered in Baghdad by Western troops, takes slow steps toward retribution. All three are on a collision course that threatens to explode in devastating destruction.