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

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 plot twists and turns like a python in a sack... Visceral, gritty and cinematic.'' The Times ''A big, breathless tale of nonstop suspense.'' The New York Times ''S imply 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

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 a former journalist and multi award-winning screen-writer. He wrote screeplays for, amongst others, Mad Max 2 - Road Warrior, Dead Calm, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Payback, From Hell and Vertical Limit, along with many un-credited writing on a host of other movies including Reign of Fire, Cliffhanger and Flightplan.

The Year of the Locust is Terry Hayes' second novel. His first, I Am Pilgrim, was published in many languages and was an international bestseller. He lives with his wife and family in Lisbon.

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
It is a textbook murder - and Pilgrim wrote the book. 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.