I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller Terry Hayes, Paperback Book, By: Atria Books

Product Description? I Am Pilgrim is simply one of the best suspense novels I've read in a long time.? -David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author? A big, breathless tale of nonstop suspense.? -Janet Maslin, The New York Times? The pages fly by ferociously fast. Simply unputdownable.? -Booklist A breakneck race against time? And an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. Smouldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. A flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity. One path links them all, and only one man can make the journey. Pilgrim. Review? Hayes delivers muscular prose, sniper-round accurate dialogue and enough superb and original plotting to fill three volumes. He balances it all with the dexterity of the accomplished storyteller that he so obviously is. I Am Pilgrim is simply one of the best suspense novels I've read in a long time.? David Baldacci?#1 New York Times bestselling author? Mr. Hayes's globe-trotting book has more kicks, twists and winks than anything of its dusty genre has provided in a long time. You will be happily surprised to find a new thriller franchise with brains to match its brawn.? Janet Maslin?The New York Times "THRILLER OF THE WEEK. Delivers thrills and spills. A full tilt mix of Homeland, The Wire and The Bourne Ultimatum. "?Mail on Sunday "I Am Pilgrim is a 21st century thriller: a high concept plot, but with finely drawn protagonists. The plot twists and turns like a python in a sack. The style is visceral, gritty and cinematic. A satisfying and ambitious book, written with skill and verve. " Adam LeBor?The Times, UK"I AM PILGRIM Is the Best Book of 2014"?The Huffington Post? The most exciting desert island read of the season? A big, breathless tale of nonstop suspense.? Janet Maslin?New York Times? The pages fly by ferociously fast. Simply unputdownable.? Booklist "Massive in many senses, but none more so than its ability to exert a vice-like grip on the reader. . Destined to be spy thriller of the year. "?Irish Independent? Once you start this taut and muscular thriller, you won't be able to put it down.??Library Journal, starred review?[A] powerful and formidably researched globe-spanning thriller.??Publisher's Weekly About the Author Terry Hayes is the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Pilgrim and the award-winning writer and producer of numerous movies. His credits include Payback, Road Warrior, and Dead Calm (featuring Nicole Kidman). He lives in Switzerland with his wife, Kristen, and their four children. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. I Am Pilgrim1There are places I'll remember all my life-Red Square with a hot wind howling across it, my mother's bedroom on the wrong side of Eight Mile, the endless gardens of a fancy foster home, a man waiting to kill me in a group of ruins known as the Theatre of Death. But nothing is burned deeper in my memory than a walk-up in New York-threadbare curtains, cheap furniture, a table loaded with tina and other party drugs. Lying next to the bed are a handbag, black panties the size of dental floss, and a pair of six-inch Jimmy Choose. Like their owner, they don't belong here. She is naked in the bathroom-her throat cut, floating facedown in a bathtub full of sulphuric acid, the active ingredient in a drain cleaner available at any supermarket. Dozens of empty bottles of the cleaner-Drain Bomb, it's called-lie scattered on the floor. Unnoticed, I start picking through them. They've all got their price tags still attached and I see that, in order to avoid suspicion, whoever killed her bought them at twenty different stores.