One to Go
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
What would you pay for a short re-wind?
Tom Booker is a new attorney at a powerful Washington law firm. Texting while driving across Memorial Bridge, he loses control and crashes into an oncoming minivan carrying his own daughter and three of her friends. The minivan tips up on two wheels, about to flip over into the Potomac. Time freezes, he's alone on the bridge. A young couple approaches and offers him a re-wind. The crash would be averted, the children saved. All he must do is kill someone every two weeks—anyone—for a soul exchange. A moment later, Tom is back in his spinning car, but averts the deadly crash. He laughs about the hallucination, attributing it to bumping his head on the steering wheel when his car came to an abrupt stop. But his encounter wasn't a hallucination. Two weeks later, the minivan driver is brutally murdered. Tom receives a text: one down, four to go. He has never shot, much less owned, a gun in his life, but now he must turn himself into a serial killer or his daughter and her friends will die.
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Washington, D.C., lawyer Tom Booker faces an ethical quandary in this lackluster paranormal thriller from Pace (Dead Light). Booker is texting while driving on a bridge over the Potomac en route to picking up his seven-year-old daughter, Janie, from his sister-in-law, Rosie Battaglia, when his Lexus crashes into a minivan carrying Rosie, Janie, and two of Janie's friends. After extricating himself from his wrecked car, Booker notices the minivan teetering as if frozen in time on the edge of the bridge. Then a preppy-looking couple approach and offer him a Faustian bargain. Janie and the others will be spared, the accident erased, only if Booker takes a life for each one that is saved. Reality sets in when one of the spared dies after Booker ignores his two-week deadline. Booker anguishes over his dilemma but decides he has no choice but to save his daughter. His struggles continue until an unlikely angel enters the battle. A superficial resolution of the problem undercuts the moral debate.
