Convergence
Orsus - Part Three

From the blood-soaked battlefields of the Crusader states to the hidden vaults of modern power, a shadow war has endured for nine centuries.

Empires fell. Kingdoms vanished. Orders were broken, scattered and buried beneath history.

But the systems survived.

When fragments of a forgotten network begin to resurface across Europe and North America, William Cochrane and his allies uncover something far more dangerous than lost treasure or an ancient conspiracy. Somebody is rebuilding the architecture of control itself; finance, intelligence, logistics and perception converging beneath a single hidden design.

At Ardchattan Priory, deep beneath ruined stone and medieval earth, a small circle of former soldiers, strategists and ghosts begin constructing a counterstroke unlike anything attempted before. Not through brute force, but through manipulation, misdirection and controlled belief.

At the centre of it all stands Helen Augustine; brilliant, fractured and unknowingly critical to both sides of the coming conflict. To some, she is the key to domination. To others, the only chance of stopping it.

But every trap requires bait.

And every system eventually reveals the shape of its creator.

As signals converge across continents, underground facilities awaken, aircraft prepare for departure and old enemies move in the dark, the hidden hand known as Mangonel begins tightening its grip upon the modern world.

What follows is not a battle for territory.

It is a battle for perception itself.

Because the most dangerous weapon ever created was never steel, gunpowder or fire.

It was belief.

And somebody has learned how to aim it.

📚 Don't wait — catch up on the trilogy: Book One: In the Temple of Death → | Book Two: Van Alen's Vertex →

About the Author

Janos Di-Fanteria is a former British Army officer whose life has been shaped by service, loss, and an unshakeable belief in the power of storytelling. Now based in Staffordshire with his two children, he weaves stories of courage, loyalty, and the human cost of conflict - blending authentic experience with powerful imagination across the sweep of history.