One Minute More
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4.3 • 9 Ratings
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Publisher Description
For fans of Lee Child and Brad Thor, an unstoppable thriller set in 1988 when—a mere 100 hours before world leaders gather for the G7 summit—police get a hot tip that an assassin is on the way.
It’s a long-shot mission. No one thinks much of the information the Toronto chief of police receives from a mysterious source: a would-be assassin is about to cross the border into Canada to kill the heads of the seven most powerful countries in the world. Undeterred, he sends young police officer Ari Greene to a sleepy Quebec–Vermont border town to investigate.
During a festive and colourful July 4th parade, Greene spots his unlikely target and gives chase across borders and boundaries. But as the hours and the minutes until the summit tick down, bodies start to pile up…
And no one, not even international heads of state, are safe.
This prequel to Robert Rotenberg’s bestselling series, including What We Buried and Downfall, is an excellent introduction to one of Toronto’s favourite detectives, Ari Greene, on his first-ever case. An enthralling action thriller in the tradition of Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal and Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne series, One Minute More is sure to delight readers of Rotenberg’s previous books and attract a whole new audience.
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Exciting action sequences can't make up for the weaknesses of criminal defense attorney Rotenberg's eighth Detective Greene novel (after What We Buried), which covers an early case in the officer's career. In July 1988, Toronto Police Chief Charles Keon receives an anonymous tip that an assassin targeting the leaders of the Ontario G7 Summit—which include Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Mikhail Gorbachev—will attempt to enter Canada. Keon sends promising young officer Ari Greene to a small town straddling the Quebec-Vermont border to investigate. There, Greene learns that several people have been killed, but fails to apprehend the culprit: Marina, a young woman trained as an assassin since age four by Afghan terrorist Alisander. Alisander's coconspirator is Angus Whitecastle, former prime minister of Great Britain, who intends to use Thatcher's death as pretext for a return to power. Marina leads Greene on a tense, bloody chase by car, train, and boat to stop her before she reaches Toronto. While Rotenberg gives most of his cast intriguing backstories, Alisander, the ostensible main antagonist, is a wisp of a character, and readers will be frustrated that Greene is scarcely involved in bringing him to justice. This is a letdown.
