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Six Seconds (2008)

by Rick Mofina(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0778326128 (ISBN13: 9780778326120)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Mira Books

review 1: Mofina is an excellent writer and even though I did not care for some of the characters in this book, he kept me reading and engaged. What I took away: violence and evil can completely twist a life into the same path of violence and evil. Made me think a bit about the nature of the human spirit, and why people behave the way they do. Mofina is a great suspense writer - he knows how to develop plot lines and keep the reader guessing right to the end. Enjoyed it!
review 2: This thriller caught my attention and kept me reading, wanting to find out what was happening. There were some initially horrific events, followed by a slow build-up with lots of little details from many different characters around the globe as RCMP Graham follows slender leads, eventuall... morey uncovering a bold terrorist plot. The story ended really quickly; I would have liked a few more details, but it was still good. However, on the second to last page, I was really annoyed by a couple sentences the author wrote. [Possible spoiler] I wanted to feel for Samara because what happened to her was horrific, but the choice she made was deeply evil: you cannot make up for your own grief at losing your family by choosing to kill another mother's child. So I REALLY didn't like this sentence: "Maggie's loathing evolved into acceptance that she and Samara were never enemies. They were women from different worlds. They were mothers united by tragedies beyond their control." Right -- so many of the atrocities in the world ARE beyond our control. That means we must make sure our own behavior, the only thing we can control, does not add to those atrocities. Every individual person has a choice to make with his or her own life. Maggie had never done anything to anyone. Samara on the other hand chose to use Maggie's son as a weapon of destruction. Samara was a damaged, hurting woman, but she chose to do unthinkable evil. If a woman who helped abduct and hide your son with the purpose of eventually killing him is not your enemy, what is the definition of enemy? The author writes that Maggie asked herself, "What are we doing to each other?" It IS a sobering thought: but the only answer is for every individual person to chose to STOP HURTING INNOCENT PEOPLE, to STOP BRUTALIZING the people around you. Both Maggie and Samara were mothers who had suffered tragedies beyond their control, but Samara chose to become a perpetrator of tragedy, specifically targeting a 9 year old child, a child utterly unconnected to the evil men who'd attacked Samara and her family in Iraq. So I didn't appreciate the author trying to indicate that Samara was some sort of equivalent to Maggie. I would have had tons more compassion on Samara had the book been about her tracking down her assailants or the wicked warlords who wiped out the harmless Bedouins with whom she'd been living (of course, an impossible task). But to chose to take her grief and pain and become the sort of person who inflicts harm on innocent people like she had once been herself -- she has become a monster. less

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