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

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Hayes subsequently became an in-house writer for Kennedy Miller, working on the scripts for all their subsequent mini-series. [3] Further work included a script for Dead Calm in 1989. [4] He wrote Bangkok Hilton specifically as a vehicle for Nicole Kidman. [5] Hollywood [ edit ]

It has been a long decade for those of us awaiting a follow-up to Terry Hayes’s debut thriller I Am Pilgrim (2013). No other recent thriller has matched its level of excitement: to achieve a comparable adrenaline rush, you would have to abandon your sofa and go bungee-jumping. The tale of an American secret agent tasked with preventing a Saudi terrorist from unleashing a deadly smallpox virus, Hayes’s novel seemed for once to justify the epithet of “epic”, which can usually be dismissed, when applied to thrillers, as a euphemism for “too long”.Is dit boek voor iedereen weggelegd? Ik denk het niet. Sowieso is het een erg lang en uitgebreid verhaal met spionage en terrorisme als hoofdthema. Hier moet dus wel je interesse liggen. Ikzelf vond het met momenten toch net wat te lang duren, maar het was een leuke kennismaking met deze auteur.

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. 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.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. 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.