The Convert's Song
Sebastian Rotella
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown, Dec 9 2014, $26.00
ISBN: 9780316324694
Having worked the dangerous crossing between San
Diego and Tijuana as a U.S. Border Patrol field operative (see Triple Crossing)
Valentine Pescatore quit to begin a less harrowing job as a private
investigator in Buenos Aires. To Pescatore’s
delightful surprise, he meets his at one time BFF Raymond Mercer the singer who
he has not seen in a decade since their teen years in Chicago. Shocking the P.I. is his buddy cleaned up his
act when he became a Muslim.
Not long afterward, terrorists kill hundreds at the
El Amacen mall in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood. The Buenos Aires police suspect Mercer and Pescatore
were the keys behind the highly complex assault. While Mercer has vanished, Pescatore teams up
with French agent Fatima Belhaj in pursuit that eventually leads to
Western Europe.
The second Pescatore intrigue is a
great action-packed suspense that entertains throughout yet also enables the audience
to better understand the diverse variety of terrorists and their overall impact
on international relations and politics.
Fast-paced from the moment Mercer says hi to the final confrontation yet
filled with graveyard humor and musicology in which both enrich the outstanding
storyline, The Convert’s Song will be on the short lists as a top five
espionage thriller of 2014.
Harriet Klausner
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