Review: Great Characters Make a Great Short Story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2012
This short story features the crew of an armored car company making their cash deliveries. Mofina takes the time to build the characters in the story: Jessica Scout, a young Blackfoot Indian woman; Elmer Gask, a white red-neck about to retire; and Gil Perez, a hardworking Latino husband and father of two little girls.Throwing these three incompatible characters into the tight confines of an armored car and add the stress of the job handling massive amounts of cash and conflict is the only outcome.I recommend this tight little story.Winner of the Crime Writers of Canada 2006 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story.