"A brilliant achievement. . . .Like the best work of Greene and Le Carr?, it is more than genre fiction; it is literature. . . .[Converence] is the most plausible, and perhaps the best spy novel ever written by an American." --Arthur Maling, Chicago Tribune "An intelligent, readable novel about two kinds of intrigue--international and bureaucratic. He succeeds admirably at both tasks."--Ross Thomas, Washington Post "A solid, provocative first novel...