“Hicks writes like Philip K Dick and Robert Crais combined, making for clean, exciting prose. Since its publication, a few other high-profile indie and hybrid authors scoped out my work and had some rather kind things to say about it.

Well-drawn characters, excellent pacing, and constant surprises make this a great cautionary tale about technology and its abuses. Smart splice of espionage and science fiction. Although the final release was polished even further, thanks to the valiant efforts of my editors at Red Adept, they called that earlier draft a Sorry about that.įor those that are finding out about this work now for the first time, Convergence was my sci-fi debut and released back in February 2014 after being named a quarter-finalist in the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest.īeing in that contest brought me some decent visibility, and even won me a review by Publisher’s Weekly of that earlier, unpublished manuscript.

OK, that’s probably enough with all the exclamation marks. In a city where peace is tenuous and loyalties are ever shifting, the past and the present are about to converge.Ĭonvergence is a tech noir work of science fiction with dystopian and cyberpunk elements, and is the first novel in the DRMR series.Calling all NetGalley sci-fi, mystery/thriller, cyberpunk reviewers! Convergence is now available for request! Click here! Many, many thanks to my editors at Red Adept Editing (a division of Red Adept Publishing that caters to those who wish to self-publish, as I did with this title) for the listing! In order to find her, Jonah will have to sift through the memories of dead men that could destroy what little he has left. Mesa's abduction is wrapped up in the secrets of a brutal murder during the war's early days, a murder that Xie wants revenged. With his daughter, Mesa, missing in post-war Los Angeles, Everitt is forced into an uneasy alliance with Alice to find her. Xie is a profiteer of street drugs, primarily DRMR, a powerful narcotic made from the memories of the dead. Jonah Everitt is a killer, a DRMR addict, and a memory thief.Īfter 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.

Convergence by Michael Patrick Hicks