The author of the cult phenomenon I Am Pilgrim ratchets up the stakes in an eagerly-awaited follow-up that promises the same calibre of high-octane tension and plenty of unexpected twists besides.
If, like Kane, you're a Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, then boundaries have no meaning. Your function is to go in, do whatever is required, and get out again - by whatever means necessary. You know when to run, when to hide - and when to shoot.
But some places don't play by the rules. Some places are too dangerous, even for a man of Kane's experience. The badlands where the borders of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan meet are such a place - a place where violence is the only way to survive.
Kane travels there to exfiltrate a man with vital information for the safety of the West - but instead he meets an adversary who will take the world to the brink of extinction. A frightening, clever, vicious man with blood on his hands and vengeance in his heart...
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9780593064962
Number of pages: 672
Weight: 886 g
Dimensions: 240 x 162 x 43 mm
Worth the wait... an often captivating, mass-market adventure story that's mostly more treat than trick - James Owen, The Times
Compare this with the thrillers written by Mr or Mrs Clinton, and you come away feeling that Hayes is the one who has more inside knowledge - Jake Kerridge, Telegraph
'[Hayes] is brilliant at action and military technology' - John Dugdale, Sunday Times
Epic and immersive, new and unexpected, and his research into spycraft is deep and compelling - Mail on Sunday
Brilliant on the way agents operate and how the US spies on the world - Sun
Very strange book as starts well but get progressively worse. Don't even both with final chapter 4, which is almost like written by a different author.
Such a shame after the marvelous I Am Pilgrim.
Sorry but...
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4.5* Like many people I loved I Am Pilgrim, Terry Hayes debut novel and I've been waiting almost a decade for the promised follow up The Year of the Locust. Wowsers. It's an epic roller coaster.
Kane is...
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After such a long wait, it's a trepidatious reader that approaches this novel, desperately hoping it will not only match the thrills and sheer readability of I Am Pilgrim, but somehow surpass them. I am very... More
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