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‘I always wanted to be J.R.R. Tolkien of the spy genre’: 21 Questions with Terry Hayes

I Am Pilgrim

The bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club pick

The Day of the Jackal meets Homeland with a dash of Bourne - the ground-breaking, internationally bestselling thriller that captivated millions of readers worldwide.

The best thriller I've read in ten years... An astonishing piece of work

THRILLER OF THE WEEK. Delivers thrills and spills...A full tilt mix of Homeland, The Wire and The Bourne Ultimatum

I Am Pilgrim is a 21st century thriller: a high concept plot, but with finely drawn protagonists. The plot twists and turns like a python in a sack. The style is visceral, gritty and cinematic...A satisfying and ambitious book, written with skill and verve

Rendition yourself into a pulsating thriller that never lets up as it carries the hero and the reader on an ever more desperate race between time and an all too plausible disaster for the world we live in. Great nail-biting stuff!

The narrative is thrilling: the tension tightens with action...It's a murder mystery, an illuminating account of contemporary international politics and a study of an unusual man......An excellent thriller which as a first novel is really remarkable

I Am Pilgrim takes the modern spy novel and pushes it screaming and kicking into the twentieth-first century. With a stunning sense of plot, beautifully detailed writing, huge ambition and even huger talent, Hayes has produced one of the most memorable novels of recent times. This is a frightening, pulse-pounding journey into the future of terrorism and the brave new world we’ve been ushered into. Amazingly assured and complex, this is one of the best debut novels I’ve ever read

Clever and compulsive - the best thriller in years

Terry Hayes' I AM PILGRIM delivers smart, compelling and wildly inventive storytelling, told on an ambitious scale with total command. A masterful novel and a terrific read

Massive in many senses, but none more so than its ability to exert a vice-like grip on the reader....Destined to be spy thriller of the year

As relevant as today's headlines. A scary trip through the shadowy world of international espionage. Just hope that Pilgrim is on our side. Terrific. No, on second thoughts, better than terrific

THRILLER OF THE MONTH - If the gizmos and bad guys of James Bond and Jason Bourne are a guilty pleasure, you'll love I Am Pilgrim

Fast-paced, slick and full of suspense...It will be the only thriller you need to read this year

A rollicking, yet thoughtful spy thriller which looks set to become a summer blockbuster... [I Am Pilgrim] has plenty of action, but at its heart the drama is cerebral and rich in character, a battle of wills and intellect which is more George Smiley than Jason Bourne

[Terry Hayes’] debut novel has been hyped as "the only thriller you need to read this year", and for once that isn't nonsense. I Am Pilgrim makes moussaka of its rivals

I Am Pilgrim is a satisfying and ambitious book, written with skill and verve

I Am Pilgrim is a fresh new take on the genre...and it’s one you won’t regret picking up

[I Am Pilgrim] has been a fantastic read: a big, solid, chunky, fast-paced, rip-roaring thriller, the love child of a manic union between Jack Reacher and James Bond.

Mr. Hayes’s globe-trotting book has more kicks, twists and winks than anything of its dusty genre has provided in a long time. You will be happily surprised to find a new thriller franchise with brains to match its brawn

Written in a heart-stopping pace, this literary thriller lands somewhere between Homeland and Breaking Bad and then transports you to a different level. It is part spy novel, part psychological thriller. Twists and turns. Emotionally complex characters. Relevant geopolitical issues.

'A big, breathless tale of nonstop suspense' The New York Times 
'Simply one of the best suspense novels I've read in a long time' David Baldacci 
'An all too plausible disaster for the world we live in. Great nail-biting stuff' Robert Goddard 
'The plot twists and turns like a python in a sack... Visceral, gritty and cinematic' The Times 
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The astonishing story of one man's breakneck race against time to save America from oblivion. 
 
A YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED. All of her identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. 
 
A FATHER PUBLICLY BEHEADED. Killed in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. 
 
A SYRIAN BIOTECH EXPERT FOUND EYELESS. Dumped in a Damascus junkyard. 
 
SMOULDERING HUMAN REMAINS. Abandoned on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. 
 
PILGRIM. The codename for a man who doesn't exist. A man who must return from obscurity. The only man who can uncover a flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity. 
 
The much-anticipated, heart-racing new thriller from Terry Hayes, THE YEAR OF THE LOCUST, is available now. 
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Praise for Terry Hayes 
 
'Clever and compulsive' Sunday Mirror 
'Huge ambition and even huger talent' Stav Sherez 
'Compelling and wildly inventive storytelling' Chris Ewan 
'Hayes brings well-refined storytelling chops to the enterprise' Kirkus

Terry Hayes

Worth the wait... an often captivating, mass-market adventure story that's mostly more treat than trick

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

'[Hayes] is brilliant at action and military technology'

Epic and immersive, new and unexpected, and his research into spycraft is deep and compelling

Brilliant on the way agents operate and how the US spies on the world

Compelling, nerve-jangling and breathlessly exciting... Totally immersive

Move over Jason Bourne. CIA operative Kane redefines the smart but vulnerable bad ass super spy in this dazzling cat-and-mouse thriller where the entire globe is a chessboard, and everyone’s playing for keeps

Has all the cinematic sweep and verve as Hayes' debut... just as enthralling

With vivid descriptions, some terrific action sequences and lashings of suspense, the book ticks all the boxes necessary for a superior geopolitical thriller

Emerging dazed and somewhat brutalised after two intense days reading this utterly gripping, elegantly written 650-page plus thriller, I can say that it was most definitely worth the wait…Kane is a fantastic character: preternaturally brilliant and brave humble and insightful

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...

Terry Hayes

Praise for The Year of the Locust

Worth the wait... an often captivating, mass-market adventure story that's mostly more treat than trick

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

'[Hayes] is brilliant at action and military technology'

Worth the wait... an often captivating, mass-market adventure story that's mostly more treat than trick

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

'[Hayes] is brilliant at action and military technology'

Worth the wait... an often captivating, mass-market adventure story that's mostly more treat than trick

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

'[Hayes] is brilliant at action and military technology'

Books by Terry Hayes

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‘I always wanted to be J.R.R. Tolkien of the spy genre’: 21 Questions with Terry Hayes

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