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

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There is a lot of action in this book, a lot of suspended disbelief (well it is fiction) but some of it is too silly for me. Hey I can live with the time warp…..after all I loved Stephen Kings 11.22.63, but when the main character gets repeatedly hurt with life threatening injuries that are bleeding out but continues on running and fighting and taking on the enemy, well for me it just got tiresome. The advance technology was kinda interesting but I felt the book was 3 stories blended into one long novel that could have been edited better. 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? The action is so real that you find yourself holding your breath even though you know the main character is narrating the story.

It felt like I was sitting at the feet of a master storyteller telling me his life story and this is really what this book is about. 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... 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 Hayes’s ability to imagine ways in which Kane can harness the latest technology to aid his mission outsoars that of his rivals, as does his ingenuity in devising low-tech ways for Kane to get out of a fix when separated from his Q Branch-style gadgets. And it hardly seems adequate to say that Kane is a character you can’t help rooting for: Hayes has the magical ability to make you believe that this is the one man who can save the world, with the result that The Year of the Locust has some of the resonance of a myth.As good, if not better, than Hayes' debut. Don't make any plans for the week after you start reading' Daily Mirror So, this is a sprawling thriller epic divided into four parts and by the time I got to Part 4, I thought to myself: oh oh...what has Terry Hayes done here?? 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.

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. Terry Hayes's first novel, I am Pilgrim was released about 10 years ago and I do remember it coming out because I was in the book trade at the time but got distracted with other books and forgot about it! 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. 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.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. 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. But this is where I had a few emotional moments here with certain characters that Kane interacts with - I won't say anything further about that here. Like many, I thought that Terry Hayes’s first novel, “I Am Pilgrim” was among the best thrillers I had read for long time. I joined those anticipating keenly his follow-up. “The Year of