As the flight attendent says, 'Please make sure that your seat backs and tray tables are in the upright and locked position, and that you have your seat belts firmly fastened'. This is good advice before reading P. M. Terrell’s latest novel Ricochet. This book is one wild and high speed ride.
The opening starts with a bang, literally, with a suicide bombing in a small U.S. shopping mall, and Ms. Terrell picks up the pace from there. This book is very timely; it strikes chords that we hear almost every day on the TV news.
Terrorism, illegal immigration, and identity theft, these are all issues that effect our everyday lives in the post 9/11 world. Ricochet brings these important issues together in a fascinating and compelling way. It shows how these three seemingly unrelated subjects could become a single entity. The joining together of these three crimes reveals an interesting, and in many ways disturbing view of how our lives could be permanently altered.
The heroine, though oftentimes victim, is Sheila Carpenter, a bright young computer scientist who has decided to join the FBI. Her first mission is to spend four months at Quantico going through the FBI basic training. Unfortunately her career almost ends before it even begins. While shopping with her best friend she finds herself involved in a suicide bombing.
Sheila escapes with minor injuries; her friend, though, is less lucky. They find themselves in a local hospital. Against the doctors' orders Sheila decides to continue on to Quantico.
Over the next few days several bizarre and seemingly unrelated events occur. Ghosts from the past combine with horrors of the present. Increasingly Sheila becomes convinced that what seem completely different and unrelated events may have a common thread. Making a connection between her parents' untimely deaths with the events unfolding before her eyes, the feisty trainee feels an obligation to investigate.
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