Why you must read Michael Patrick Hicks’ Convergence
Jonah Everitt is a killer, a DRMR addict, and a memory thief. After being hired to kill a ranking officer of the Pacific Rim Coalition and download his memories, Everitt finds himself caught in the crosshairs of a terror cell, a rogue military squadron, and a Chinese gangster named Alice Xie. Xie is a profiteer of street drugs, primarily DRMR, a powerful narcotic made from the memories of the dead. With his daughter, Mesa, missing in post-war Los Angeles, Everitt is forced into an uneasy alliance with Alice to find her. Mesa’s abduction is wrapped up in the secrets of a brutal murder during the war’s early days, a murder that Alice Xie wants revenged. In order to find her, Jonah will have to sift through the memories of dead men that could destroy what little he has left. In a city where peace is tenuous and loyalties are ever shifting, the past and the present are about to converge. Post-war? Is the story set in the 1940s? What genre is your novel? And it has, hasn’t it? Reviewers and awards panels have been very complimentary. Getting back to the story, tell us about Jonah Everitt. He does wet-work for Alice Xie, a Chinese gangster, who has hired him to kill a general in the Pacific Rim Coalition occupying LA and to steal his memories. Jonah takes the job without much thought. Snuff mems like these are illegal, and can replicate the sensory experience of death giving the users a psychedelic high. Jonah’s only looking for a new score, but Alice… Alice has some deeper designs on these memories, which hold the key to solving her own family’s death during the war’s early days. Have you written any other books that we should read next? How can we do that? Have you got a website? What about social media? Point your browsers to my FB page and hit Like at http://www.facebook.com/authormichaelpatrickhicks. Tell us a bit about yourself. How easily do new storylines come to you? If we give you four random words Edward Marcus has been hired to track her down, and in order to discover her whereabouts, he’ll have to get close to her old CIA handler, a man who has been drummed out of the Agency and disavowed, and who is hungry to put his Texan militia to the ultimate test. One man wants war. Another will do anything to stop it. And Caroline? She just wants a stiff drink and a one-way ticket out of the States. And she’ll kill whoever gets in her way. |
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