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

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Was it worth the long wait – absolutely, but hopefully it won’t be another decade until the next one though! 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. 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.

Once he had left front-line operations, he spent several decades climbing the greasy pole in Washington, and the clothes and the image were all part of that. In the corridors of power and the elite social salons of Georgetown he was seen as both accomplished and very sophisticated; a safe pair of elegant hands. 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? Ik vond Kane een boeiend personage. Je leest ook over zijn liefdesleven, maar vooral zijn taak als spion was interessant.

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David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p82 Whereas A Little Life closely follows a group of four friends in New York City over the course of several decades, plunging in and out of the protagonist’s traumatic past, Yanagihara’s next novel, To Paradise, which will be published on 11 January, spans three centuries and three ‘different versions of the American experiment’. Despite this more expansive setting, it sounds likely to contain Yanagihara’s trademark anguish, with mentions of fragile characters, the AIDS epidemic and totalitarian rule.

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' Lisa Gardner For the American politician, see Terry Hayes (politician). For the American wheelchair fencer, see Terry Hayes (fencer).

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Kane reist erheen om een man met cruciale informatie voor de veiligheid van het Westen te evacueren, maar in plaats daarvan ontmoet hij een vijand die de wereld tot aan de rand van de afgrond zal brengen. Een angstaanjagende, intelligente, wrede man met bloed aan zijn handen en wraak in zijn hart...

In 2001, Hayes was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay for his work on From Hell. [7] Transworld has unveiled Terry Hayes’ second novel, The Year of the Locust, scheduled for publication on 9th November 2023. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. TH: Because I had no guarantees or expectations for I am Pilgrim to be successful I decided to write a stand-alone novel, The Year of the Locust. It should be out in eighteen months and is centered on cloaking technology, where objects appear invisible even though they are really there. There is a lot of research being done on this by the military. I would describe it as “Planet of The Apes” meets “Lost,” or “Star-Trek” like.Be interesting to see how it sells. Unfortunately I won’t be recommending it but then I won’t deter people who want to buy it. The only clue to any possible difficulties Hayes might have had in the writing is that Kane’s mission comes to a climax fairly early, and then, after the novel has trodden water for a little while, he embarks on another one: there’s a slight sense of cut-and-shut. While the first half chronicles events you might expect to read about in tomorrow’s newspaper, the second half is an excursion into sci-fi.