Join us for an e vening with Robert Rotenberg\, fiction writer\, criminal lawyer\, televisi on screenwriter and teacher\, as he discusses his latest novel\, \;One Minute More.
\nRobert Rot enberg is the author of several bestselling novels\, including \;< a href="https://wpl-kitch.ca.iiivega.com/search/card?id=62b47bd0-07da-5118 -b069-da9b7a48b775&\;entityType=FormatGroup" target="_blank" rel="noope ner">Old City Hall\, \;The Guilty Plea \, \;Stray Bullets\, \;Stranglehold\, \;Heart of the City\, \;Dow nfall\, and \;What We Buried. He is a crim inal lawyer in Toronto with his firm Rotenberg Shidlowski Jesin. He is als o a television screenwriter and a writing teacher. \;
\nFor fans of Lee Child and Brad Thor\, One Minute More \;is an unstoppable thriller set in 1988 when&mdash\;a mere 100 hours before world leaders gather for the G7 summit&mdash\;police get a ho t tip that an assassin is on the way.
\nIt&rsquo\;s a long-shot miss ion. No one thinks much of the information the Toronto chief of police rec eives 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 s leepy Quebec&ndash\;Vermont border town to investigate.
\nDuring a f estive and colourful July 4th parade\, Greene spots his unlikely target an d gives chase across borders and boundaries. But as the hours and the minu tes until the summit tick down\, bodies start to pile up&hellip\;
\nAnd no one\, not even international heads of state\, are safe.
\nThi s prequel to Robert Rotenberg&rsquo\;s bestselling series\, including What We Buried and Downfall\, is an excellent introduction t o one of Toronto&rsquo\;s favourite detectives\, Ari Greene\, on his first -ever case. An enthralling action thriller in the tradition of Frederick F orsyth&rsquo\;s The Day of the Jackal and Robert Ludlum&rsquo\;s Jason Bourne series\, One Minute More is sure to delight readers of Rotenberg&rsquo\;s previous books and att ract a whole new audience.
\nThis program is in partnership with Wor ds Worth Books.
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