The Panic Zone by Rick Mofina

They say her baby is dead, but she refuses to believe it. His co-workers say he is inexperienced, but he is going to prove them wrong.


Emma Lane has finally achieved complete happiness. She’s deeply in love with her husband Joe, and together they have an infant son, Tyler. Joe’s been working a lot of hours lately, so when they get some free time, they decide to have a family picnic. But on the way, a car swerves in their lane and their SUV crashes. Emma and Joe are tossed from the vehicle, and Joe is dying. But Emma, through her haze of pain, sees someone take Tyler from the crushed vehicle, where he is strapped in his seat. No one believes Emma that her son is alive, but she is determined to find him.


Jack Gannon needs a break. He is a journalist and his boss is sending him to Rio De Janeiro to investigate a café bombing that took the lives of two of their own. The local police force claim the bombing is tied to a narcotics gang war, but Jack digs deeper and soon finds himself travelling across the globe, not only for the story but for the truth.


An ex-CIA scientist has vanished. But when a middle age man drops dead unexpectedly on a cruise ship with odd causes, top scientists fear their old research is back to haunt them. But, what they do not know is that their old colleague has been performing clinical trials for years now and is about to go public in a big way.


THE PANIC ZONE is a thriller of magnificent proportions. Rick Mofina sets the stage and deftly builds and weaves the stories together until they all merge into one horrifying and plausible explanation that has the reader sitting on the edge of their seat. A top-notch suspense!