Book Title: ONE MINUTE MORE
Character Name: Detective Ari Greene
How would you describe your family or your childhood?
I’m the only Jewish detective on the Homicide Squad of the Toronto police force and the only child of parents are holocaust “survivors.” I put survivors in quotes, because my dad, Yitzhak, the toughest and wisest person I know, hates the term. His first wife and daughter were killed in the camps. My mother died a few years ago from Alzheimer’s – thinking near the end of her life that her nurses were Nazi guards. But you don’t dare feel sorry for my father. Now he’s full of joy, especially now because a few years ago I discovered that I have a twenty-year old daughter, Alison, I never knew about. She grew up in England and now lives with us. Not your typical family, but family we are.
What was your greatest talent?
Listening. Thinking. Caring.
Significant other?
In the new book, ONE MINUTE MORE, a prequel set in 1988, the readers learn that back then I had a girlfriend named Meredith. And in the more recent books I was, well, having an affair with a married woman. A prosecutor. It all ended when she was strangled to death in the book STRANGLEHOLD, and I was charged with her murder.
Biggest challenge in relationships?
Learning to drink coffee. I just started dating a pathologist who is from South America. She loves coffee. I’ve never drank coffee in my life. (A true rarity in the homicide squad.) She recently induced me to try an espresso. Things men will do for a woman… “eh” …as they we say here in Canada.
Where do you live?
Toronto. With my dad and my new-found daughter Alison. Although some cases, old and new, take me far afield, I’m rooted here. Just as Bosch knows Los Angeles, and Rebus knows Edinburgh I know my city, its people, its secrets and its hiding places.
Do you have any enemies?
I’ve been a homicide detective for more than 20 years. Put many people behind bars. In the new novel, the prequel ONE MINUTE MORE, set in 1988 I chase down an assassin who is on her way to kill the world leaders, the G-7, including Reagan, Thatcher, Mitterrand, Gorbachev …so fill in the blanks.
How do you feel about the place where you are now? Is there something you are particularly attached to, or particularly repelled by, in this place?
I’ve watched since was a child as Toronto has transformed from a neat and tidy small city, into the fourth largest metropolis in North America, behind only New York, L.A and Mexico City. It has become the most multi-cultural city in the world. The fastest – by far – growing city in North America. All this has brought so much good, and so many issues and conflicts. Endless challenges. The world has arrived here and I’m at the centre of it all.
Do you have children, pets, both, or neither?
I have Alison. She was a 20-year-old journalism student living in London England, and never knew I existed, until her mother died. Now she lives with me and my father in Toronto. She’s adjusting to losing her mother, having a father and being totally in love with her grandfather.
What do you do for a living?
I’m the head of the Toronto Homicide Squad. But before that…well many adventures and more to come.
Greatest disappointment?
In the last book, WHAT WE BURIED, I realized that a top lawyer and his daughter who is a high court judge, are secret Nazis and killers. I haven’t been able to expose and catch them. Yet..
Greatest source of joy?
Seeing my father and my daughter laughing together.
What do you do to entertain yourself or have fun?
Listen. Think.
What is your greatest personal failing, in your view?
The ones that got away. Criminals. Lovers.
What keeps you awake at night?
Worrying about my dad, though I’d never tell him. I know he’s near the end.
What is the most pressing problem you have at the moment?
Catching those Nazis. Worry about Alison after her grandfather is gone.
Is there something that you need or want that you don’t have? For yourself or for someone important to you?
Justice.
Why don’t you have it? What is in the way?
Life
For fans of Lee Child and Brad Thor, an unstoppable thriller set in 1988 when—a mere 100 hours before world leaders gather for the G7 summit—police get a hot tip that an assassin is on the way.
It’s a long-shot mission. No one thinks much of the information the Toronto chief of police receives 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 sleepy Quebec–Vermont border town to investigate.
During a festive and colourful July 4th parade, Greene spots his unlikely target and gives chase across borders and boundaries. But as the hours and the minutes until the summit tick down, bodies start to pile up…
And no one, not even international heads of state, are safe.
This prequel to Robert Rotenberg’s bestselling series, including What We Buried and Downfall, is an excellent introduction to one of Toronto’s favourite detectives, Ari Greene, on his first-ever case. An enthralling action thriller in the tradition of Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal and Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne series, One Minute More is sure to delight readers of Rotenberg’s previous books and attract a whole new audience.
Thriller Historical [Simon & Schuster, On Sale: February 25, 2025, Trade Paperback / e-Book , ISBN: 9781668078778 / eISBN: 9781668078815]
Robert Rotenberg is a Canadian criminal defence lawyer and writer, based in Toronto. He has worked extensively as a criminal defence lawyer from the 1990s. As of April, 2019 he practices as part of the association of Rotenberg Shidlowski Jesin. Rotenberg's first novel, Old City Hall is an international best-seller
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