One Second Away - by Rick Mofina (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

What happens when your worst nightmare becomes your reality?

One sunny day in California, Jessie is hugging her nine-year-old son, Dylan, goodbye at the airport. He's travelling alone, all the way across the country, to visit his grandparents and father, Jessie's soon-to-be ex-husband. Her heart is breaking, but she puts on a brave face and gives her son one last wave as a flight attendant leads him away.

Several hours later, Jessie gets a frantic call from Dylan's grandmother in New York. Dylan is missing.

In a split-second, Jessie's world turns upside down.

The AirTag she'd put in Dylan's backpack says he's still at LAX. The airline insists that he was picked up at JFK by an elderly couple claiming to be his grandparents--but Jessie's in-laws insist they haven't seen him.

Dylan has disappeared into thin air.

At the same moment, miles away, in Toronto, a train operator loses control of a subway train, and the fiery crash kills five passengers and injures dozens of others. Was this a fatal human error or something more sinister? And how exactly is it connected to the disappearance of Dylan?

Because, somehow, it is.

Review Quotes

"A first-rate thriller." --Shari Lapena, #1 bestselling author of She Didn't See It Coming

"With countless page-turning twists that take you from Toronto to Paris to São Paulo, you don't so much read One Second Away as you do live it. Rick Mofina's latest thriller is a roaring rollercoaster ride that will keep your heart pounding until the very end." --Ashley Tate, #1 bestselling author of Twenty-Seven Minutes

"One Second Away by Rick Mofina is a pulse-pounding, relentless thriller that'll leave you breathless. It's full of high-octane tension, multiple twists, shady characters and the pitfalls of modern technology. Buckle up for one heck of a ride!" --Hannah Mary McKinnon, internationally bestselling author of A Killer Motive

"[An] intense and fantastic thriller. Mofina's compelling and twisty narrative builds suspense while playing with reader expectations. He takes a great plot and adds the human element so we care about the characters and what's happening on every gripping page. Everyone should be one second away from snapping this up and adding it to their reading pile." --firstCLUE Reviews

About the Author

RICK MOFINA is a USA TODAY, Globe and Mail, and Toronto Star bestselling author of more than thirty crime fiction thrillers that have been published in nearly thirty countries. A former journalist, he has interviewed murderers on death row, flown over Los Angeles with the LAPD and patrolled with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police near the Arctic. He has also reported from the Caribbean, Africa, Kuwait and Qatar. He is a two-time winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence, a Barry Award winner, and a multiple finalist for the International Thriller Writers Awards and the Shamus Award, presented by the Private Eye Writers of America. Library Journal calls him "one of the best thriller writers in the business."