One Second Away
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A standalone thriller by Rick Mofina, with two stories taking place in the US and Canada that somehow connect to each other. It can be read as a standalone, apart from any series.
Jessie puts her nine-year-old son Dylan on a flight at LAX, alone, heading to his grandparents in New York. Hours later, the grandparents call: Dylan never arrived. The airline says he was picked up at JFK by an elderly couple claiming to be family. Dylan’s own grandparents say they haven’t seen him, and the AirTag in Dylan’s backpack still pings from LAX. Jessie’s world collapses.
At the same time, in Toronto, a subway train goes out of control. Five people are killed, dozens injured. Investigators can’t immediately say whether it was operator error or something deliberate. The two events don’t seem to be connected. The story moves fast between the missing child investigation and the crash inquiry, with both threads tightening toward a single explanation. Mofina keeps the stakes personal: Jessie is desperate and realistic, not a superhero, while the larger plot builds toward something more calculated and disturbing than either storyline initially suggests.
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