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

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The relationship with his girlfriend, Becca proves how human and vulnerable Kane is and the dynamic between them was great - especially later on in the book - I loved how she stands up to Falcon in a particular scene and exhibits...gumption which is a trait I greatly admire. Dan lees je over Kane en zijn uiteindelijke ontmoeting met de grootste vijand en ook hier was de spanning goed aanwezig. Uiteindelijk krijgt het verhaal in de laatste twee delen ook een sci-fi tintje, dus dit moet wel je smaak zijn, anders weet ik niet zeker of het je gaat bevallen.

At this point, you half expect a unicorn to trot in, offering everyone a ride to Narnia. The plot twists are less 'twists' and more akin to narrative gymnastics. The characters, once somewhat grounded, now leap across time and battle zombies with a casualness that makes you wonder if they're all just in a particularly vivid fever dream. There was plenty with which to find fault – nobody would say that Hayes, best known previously as a screenwriter on Mad Max films in the 1980s, is a master of style or characterisation – but there was something elemental about the book, a rare sense that the outcome of its contests of brain and brawn really mattered.Regarded as “the best book of 2014” ( Suspense Magazine), “a big, breathless tale of nonstop suspense” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times), and “simply one of the best suspense novels I’ve read in a long time” (#1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci), Terry Hayes’s masterful thriller I Am Pilgrim was the recipient of countless accolades. Now, with The Year of the Locust, Hayes has penned a breathtaking story about cutting-edge science, a government conspiracy, and one man’s desperate attempt to unravel it all. 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. 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 Ik vond Kane een boeiend personage. Je leest ook over zijn liefdesleven, maar vooral zijn taak als spion was interessant.

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' Telegraph 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... Firstly, like many others I loved I Am Pilgrim, I’ve recommended it to many of my friends and when I read it I didn’t even want to blink as it wasted reading time. The protagonist, Kane is what you call an elite operator for the CIA, a denied access area spy and when a mission needs to be completed in some of the most dangerous places in the world: Iran, Pakistan, Russia, China, North Korea etc. they don't send in the Special Activities Division - they send Kane instead.

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If people continued on, they would realize that Kane doesn't spend too long in this timeline and the rest of the book occurs in the present so if anyone threw the book down, take it from me personally that you will finish the book on a high note. I won’t say too much, I did finish the book but it did become a chore, the last couple of hours took me a while to get through I felt like it was written by a completely different person and all I can say is it was bizarre. It just didn’t do it for me. Three quarters of the book is spy thriller and then he switches in a 180 degree turn and it becomes Science Fiction - a very ballsy move, folks and dangerous. When I finished the book, I read about readers' reaction to this and yep, a few people DNF'd it, put it down and didn't continue. We all fell in love with Terry Hayes when he took the spy thriller world by storm in 2014. I Am Pilgrim is still today nine years later is considered by many to be the finest book written for a thriller fan.

I loved I Am Pilgrim, so have been anticipating the release of the Year of the Locust for some time. I made the mistake of reading a review in the press which hinted at the large twist and the merging of Science Fiction and thriller genres, so was apprehensive when I started the book. I should not have worried, however. The first half of the book is brilliant and those who like I am Pilgrim will enjoy it too. The twist, when it comes, works for me. I think Terry Hayes pulls it off and if anything it adds to the book and although many books claim to be 'un-putdownable,' this was genuinely in that category. The action is so real that you find yourself holding your breath even though you know the main character is narrating the story. Kane himself is a very engaging character and he has many layers and he's very human despite his phenomenal skill set. He has vulnerabilities and fears just like everyone else and I think the character was very authentically written and just brilliant to read about and spend time with. This is a book for a Terry Hayes fan more than an I Am Pilgrim fan but you have to read it to understand what I mean by saying this. You also have to go in very open-minded. As with hist first book, the detail of the plot, weaving various strands and sub plots together - Saigon and the Magus stand out - were excellent.Hayes seems to have thrown every implausible plot device into a blender, hoping for a smoothie but ending up with chunky, narrative soup. The first two-thirds of the book teeter on the edge of believability, like a cat on a windowsill in a hurricane. But it's the final third where Hayes really cranks up the 'implausibility-o-meter' to a level that would make even sci-fi aficionados raise an eyebrow. Wanneer je, net als Kane, werkzaam bent als spion voor de CIA in Denied Access Area’s, dan hebben grenzen geen betekenis. Jouw taak is om je toegang te verschaffen, te doen wat nodig is en weer te ontsnappen… op welke manier dan ook. Je weet wanneer je moet rennen, wanneer je je moet verstoppen en wanneer je moet schieten. 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...