Can you commit the perfect crime?Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn t exist. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation.But that book will come back to haunt him. It will help NYPD detective Ben Bradley track him down. And it will take him to a rundown New York hotel room where the body of a woman is found facedown in a bath of acid, her features erased, her teeth missing, her fingerprints gone. It is a textbook murder and Pilgrim wrote the book.What begins as an unusual and challenging investigation will become a terrifying race-against-time to save America from oblivion. Pilgrim will have to make a journey from a public beheading in Mecca to a deserted ruins on the Turkish coast via a Nazi death camp in Alsace and the barren wilderness of the Hindu Kush in search of the faceless man who would commit an appalling act of mass murder in the name of his God.

**The astonishing story of one man's breakneck race against time to save America from oblivion.

'Simply one of the best suspense novels I've read in a long time.'** David Baldacci
**'A big, breathless tale of nonstop suspense.'** The New York Times
**'The plot twists and turns like a python in a sack... Visceral, gritty and cinematic.'** The Times
**'An all too plausible disaster for the world we live in. Great nail-biting stuff.'** Robert Goddard

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE.

A FATHER PUBLICLY BEHEADED. Killed in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square.

A YOUNG WOMAN DISCOVERED. All of her identifying characteristics dissolved by acid.

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.

**Readers are gripped by I Am Pilgrim:
'A real page turner that no one should miss!'
'Slick, gritty and cinematic. I couldn't stop thinking about it.'
'A brilliant, thought-provoking story and one I hope will never come true!'

THE YEAR OF THE LOCUST, the ground-breaking second novel from Terry Hayes, is available to pre-order now.

Vorwort
The Day of the Jackal meets Homeland with a dash of Bourne - a debut thriller to take your breath away

Autorentext

Terry Hayes is an award-winning Hollwood screenwriter, Emmy-nominated producer, and journalist. His film credits include Pay Back, From Hell, Mad Max 2 and Vertical Limit. He has lived in the UK, Australia and the US and now lives in Switzerland with his wife and children. I am Pilgrim is his debut novel and a multi-million global bestseller.