The Year of the Locust: The ground-breaking second novel from the internationally bestselling author of I AM PILGRIM

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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... 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. Kaye, Don (1 July 2014). "Human See, Human Do: A Complete History of 'Planet of the Apes' ". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 8 January 2019. I Am Pilgrim' is a twelve-course meal of a thriller.... A breathtaking accomplishment of a debut.'--Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author of Tell No Lies

A small huddle of men and women closest to the cranes – most likely relatives and friends – were on their knees, wailing and praying. They looked up as a uniformed man, a lieutenant colonel, climbed on top of one of the vans and spoke in Farsi through a loudhailer, his voice echoing across the square. He read out the name of each prisoner, the charge and then the sentence. As you would expect, the CIA – the deeply flawed but occasionally brilliant organization where I had worked for the previous twelve years – made numerous attempts to find him, but none of them came close to success and, with more evidence of his double-dealing surfacing daily, his status grew until he became something of a dark legend to US intelligence. Worse still, the agency’s analysts drilled down and found that over the years he had assumed so many fake identities that the Company was finally forced to admit one final chilling fact: they had no idea who he really was. Maybe he wasn’t even German.This portion of the book sees Kane getting displaced forward in time after a disastrous voyage in a prototype submarine that has cloaking technology and he finds himself 24 years in the future where New York is an apocalyptic landscape and The Locust has been hell bent on destroying the world - pretty out there, huh? Finally, he lowered the pieces of paper and, more loudly, said a word which translated as: ‘Ready.’ One of the condemned prisoners – a man – heard the word and his courage failed: he screamed, calling on God to save him. I once went to kill a man. At other times, in younger days, I had followed my work through the neon-lit alleys of Tokyo, watched the sun rise over the Mosque of the Nine Cupolas and waited on the waterfront in Old Istanbul as a woman’s tears fell like rain. Ben Coes, New York Times bestselling author of international espionage thrillers featuring Dewey Andreas Was it worth the long wait – absolutely, but hopefully it won’t be another decade until the next one though!

Ongoing Covid restrictions, reduced air and freight capacity, high volumes and winter weather conditions are all impacting transportation and local delivery across the globe. With arresting eyes and a firm line to his jaw, he was probably more imposing than handsome, but one thing was certain: he was the best-dressed man I had ever met. No matter the hour, no matter how fraught the situation, you would find him early in the morning in his office, or late at night in the operations centre, wearing a hand-made Brioni suit, a silk tie and a Charvet shirt. Even his collection of cufflinks was a wonder to behold.

MGM Acquires Terry Hayes Thriller 'I Am Pilgrim' ". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Media Corporation. 17 July 2014 . Retrieved 17 May 2015. Nobody in the crowd said a word; the only sound was the wailing of the families as the ten bodies swung gently in the warm Middle Eastern breeze.