The Year of the Locust
A Thriller
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4.1 • 382 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
In this “absolutely brilliant, tension-filled tour de force” (Brad Thor) from New York Times bestselling author Terry Hayes, CIA spy Kane confronts an evil that could bring the world to a cataclysmic end.
If, like Kane, you’re a Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, then boundaries have no meaning. Your function is to go in, do whatever is required, and get out again—by whatever means necessary. You know when to run, when to hide—and when to shoot.
But some places don’t play by the rules. Some places are too dangerous, even for a man of Kane’s experience. The badlands where the borders of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan meet are such a place—a place where violence is the only way to survive.
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Hayes follows up I Am Pilgrim with a sprawling, genre-shattering feat that rewrites the rules for military thrillers. When an Iranian CIA informant reveals that ISIS founder Abu Muslim al-Tundra, who was previously assumed dead, is alive and planning a large-scale attack against America, the agency sends seasoned spy Ridley "Kane" Walker to Iran to investigate. Kane arrives to discover that the informant is dead, his cover is blown, and a trap awaits. Rather than flee, as protocol requires, Kane stays to save the dead man's family before being captured and tortured by al-Tundra, who then escapes to Russia and takes charge of an aerospace facility that refines material retrieved from asteroids. When the CIA discovers that Kane defied procedure, he's forced to resign, but the agency's director pulls strings to have him assigned to a top secret submarine participating in war games trials. After the sub's cloaking technology malfunctions, the story zigzags in and out of sci-fi territory as time travel, alien spores, and the threat of apocalypse come into play. Those expecting a Tom Clancy-esque military thriller might find the transition jarring, but more intrepid readers will be rewarded with a stunningly audacious climax. This is a major achievement.
Customer Reviews
I find both his book hard to put down
Love the story telling of this author. This one takes a bit of a wild turn, but enjoyed it nonetheless the less.
Weird turn
Was great for 3/4 of the book, then a weird turn almost like someone else wrote it. Not on par with I am Pilgrim. Very well written though.
What Could Have Been
Loved Hayes’ first book, and was excited to start this one. And parts of it are great, page after page of perfect suspense. If I’m being honest though, the book veers completely off the rails about two-thirds in. It recovers to have a solid ending, but this book simply doesn’t know what it wants to be. It could have been a great spy thriller but winds up an odd mishmash of sci-fi and spy novel. Just odd