In Before Sunrise, Will Fortin of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is on patrol in southern Alberta. It’s a lonely region where the sky meets the land on even terms, where the landscape exaggerates or diminishes your place in the world. If you’re lucky, trouble would never find you there. If you weren’t, this was your battleground. This is where Fortin experiences the worst any cop can face, the … can face, the taking of innocent lives while under fire in responding to a violent call at a farm involving a gun. His life destroyed his guilt unbearable, Fortin, a good man, struggles as a haunted soul, aching to redeem himself.
Years after the shooting, Fortin is assigned to escort a murderer from a Canadian prison to trial in Seattle, Washington. When their plane crashes in the unforgiving Rocky Mountains, Fortin is presented with his last chance at redemption.
Before Sunrise is a powerful, heart-wrenching story of love, heartbreak, courage and enduring human spirit.
Rick Mofina is a former journalist who has interviewed murderers on death row in Montana and Texas, flown over L.A. with the LAPD and patrolled with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police near the Arctic. He’s also reported from the Caribbean, Africa and Kuwait’s border with Iraq. His true-crime freelance work has appeared in The New York Times, The Telegraph (London, U.K.), Reader’s Digest, Penthouse, Marie Claire and The South China Morning Post, (Hong Kong). He has written more than 20 crime fiction thrillers that have been published in nearly 30 countries.
His work has been praised by James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, Jeffery Deaver, Louise Penny, Sandra Brown, James Rollins, Brad Thor, Nick Stone, David Morrell, Allison Brennan, Heather Graham, Linwood Barclay, Peter Robinson, Håkan Nesser and Kay Hooper.
The Crime Writers of Canada, The International Thriller Writers and The Private Eye Writers of America have listed his titles among the best in crime fiction. As a two-time winner of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award, a four-time Thriller Award finalist and a two-time Shamus Award finalist, the Library Journal calls him, “One of the best thriller writers in the business.”
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A great real life story of tragedy and redemption.
Rick Mofina is one of The Best Mystery Thriller Writers! Read everyone of his books!
Unexpected twists and turns! Totally unexpected turn at the end…didn’t see it coming!
I’ll read anything Rick Mofina writes.
Best book I’ve read of the last 33. Interesting characters. Plot turns that were not predictable or even foreseen. Did not want to put it down.
Somewhat intriguing.
In this book, you felt like you knew exactly how the lead character was feeling. That is hard to do. I have enjoyed all of Rick’s books.
I loved this story! Hard to put down. It flowed from one page to the next too fast so I bought another of your books pronto ! Thank you for a job well done that kept me entertained for 2evenings
Nice read
Mr. Mofina never fails to captivate me!
Couldn’t put it down!
a really great read!!
An excellent thriller with twists and turns full of compassion,the ending is an advert for humanity. Loved it .
I prefer books with a little more happiness, too sad for me…..
Great interaction between the characters with a surprise ending!
Sad, but an excellent story. I love Rick Movina’s writing.
I was not a fan of this book’s style. It was choppy and I found it predictable.
I’ve read others by Rick Mofina that I found much better.
Hard to put down
Could not get into this one. To slow with recollections from childhood.
Great read