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Reviewed by Ray Simmons for Readers' Favorite
Convergent 9.0 by Paul H. Landes is an exciting corporate espionage thriller. One of the things I liked about it most was the variety of interesting settings. We start at a huge ranch in Montana but quickly find ourselves in locales like San Francisco, London, Paris, and even a place called Shakespeare Beach.
One definition of the word convergent is tending to move toward one point or to approach each other. Another definition is the degree or point where subplots within a story come together. Either definition will explain this complex thriller. In one thread of the story we have young and intrepid Steph Moore. Steph is an outstanding graduate from a top journalism school, but she has never had a chance to do a real story. In another thread we have Alex, a semi-retired industrial spy. These are two very capable women. When they both begin working on what appears to be two very important and unrelated cases, the action and suspense grow to very satisfying levels.
Paul Landes does a good job of taking us from one storyline to the other, cultivating the anticipation until we reach the climatic explosion. The characters are very interesting and the scenarios plausible. Each woman has her strengths and weaknesses but both are great at their jobs. They have to be because their opponents are first class bad guys, nasty in every way imaginable. Arms dealers with the ancient Japanese Bushido philosophy as their creed. It doesn’t get much better than this.
