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    A Lifetime Burning In A Moment
    A Lifetime Burning In A Moment
    A Lifetime Burning In A Moment
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    A Lifetime Burning In A Moment

    By RICK MOFINA

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    John Devlin is a mild-mannered actuary and lifelong weakling who has been bullied much of his life, until one day he is forced to search for courage when his family is threatened while vacationing in a remote region far from help. "A Lifetime Burning in a Moment" is a tense, 4,700-word story by acclaimed thriller author Rick Mofina.

    It is one of three gripping tales in his crime anthology, THREE TO THE HEART.

    About the author:
    Rick Mofina is a former crime reporter and the award-winning author of several notable thrillers.

    The International Thriller Writers, The Private Eye Writers of America and The Crime Writers of Canada have listed Rick Mofina's titles as being among the best in the world.

    His books have been published in some 21 countries and have been praised by James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, Jeffery Deaver, Sandra Brown, James Rollins, Brad Thor, Nick Stone, David Morrell, Allison Brennan, Heather Graham, Linwood Barclay, Peter Robinson, Håkan Nesser and Kay Hooper. For more information please visit www.rickmofina dot com .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRICK MOFINA
    Release dateApr 7, 2012
    ISBN9781927114315
    A Lifetime Burning In A Moment
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    RICK MOFINA

    Rick Mofina is a former crime reporter and the award-winning author of several acclaimed thrillers. He's interviewed murderers face-to-face on death row; patrolled with the LAPD and the RCMP. His true crime articles have appeared in The New York Times, Marie Claire, Reader’s Digest and Penthouse. He's reported from the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, Qatar and Kuwait's border with Iraq. For more information please visit www.rickmofina.com

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      A Lifetime Burning In A Moment - RICK MOFINA

      A LIFETIME

      BURNING

      IN A MOMENT

      A Short Story

      RICK MOFINA

      Title

      Introduction

      A Lifetime Burning in a Moment

      Contact Rick Mofina

      Other Short Stories

      About the Author

      Also by Rick Mofina

      Praise for Rick Mofina’s Books

      Copyright © 2009 & 2012 by Rick Mofina

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the creation of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      A Lifetime Burning

      In A Moment

      Rick Mofina

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2012 Rick Mofina

      Copyright © 2009 Rick Mofina

      ISBN 978-1-927114-31-5

      e-Formatting provided by Carrick Publishing

      This e-book is intended for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be sold or given away to other people. If you’re reading this e-book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      INTRODUCTION

      The story, A Lifetime Burning in a Moment, was first featured in the anthology Dead in the Water, by Rendezvous Press and later appeared in The Penguin Book of Crime Stories, Volume II, edited and introduced by Peter Robinson. It is included in my e-anthology, Three to the Heart, my second small collection of short stories which is the follow up to my first anthology, Dangerous Women and Desperate Men.

      I regard the stories collected in Three to the Heart to be among the best of my short crime fiction.

      Rick Mofina

      Rmofina @ gmail dot com

      A LIFETIME BURNING IN A MOMENT

      by Rick Mofina

      knew the boys who lived in the clapboard houses by the railroad tracks not only liked beating him up, but needed to beat

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