At twenty-one he was appointed North American correspondent, based in New York, and after two years returned to Sydney to become an investigative reporter, political correspondent and columnist. Born in Sussex, England, he migrated to Australia as a child and trained as a journalist at the country's leading broadsheet. Terry Hayes is a former journalist and screen-writer. 'The narrative is thrilling: the tension tightens with action.It's a murder mystery, an illuminating account of contemporary international politics and a study of an unusual man.An excellent thriller which as a first novel is really remarkable' ( Literary Review) From the Author: Great nail-biting stuff!' ( Robert Goddard) 'Rendition yourself into a pulsating thriller that never lets up as it carries the hero and the reader on an ever more desperate race between time and an all too plausible disaster for the world we live in. The style is visceral, gritty and cinematic.A satisfying and ambitious book, written with skill and verve' (Adam LeBor The Times) The plot twists and turns like a python in a sack. ' I Am Pilgrim is a 21st century thriller: a high concept plot, but with finely drawn protagonists. Delivers thrills and spills.A full tilt mix of Homeland, The Wire and The Bourne Ultimatum' ( Mail on Sunday) An astonishing piece of work' (Linwood Barclay) 'The best thriller I've read in ten years. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.

Pilgrim will have to make a journey from a public beheading in Mecca to a deserted ruins on the Turkish coast via a Nazi death camp in Alsace and the barren wilderness of the Hindu Kush in search of the faceless man who would commit an appalling act of mass murder in the name of his God. What begins as an unusual and challenging investigation will become a terrifying race-against-time to save America from oblivion. It is a textbook murder – and Pilgrim wrote the book. And it will take him to a rundown New York hotel room where the body of a woman is found facedown in a bath of acid, her features erased, her teeth missing, her fingerprints gone. It will help NYPD detective Ben Bradley track him down. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation.īut that book will come back to haunt him. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence.

Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn’t exist.

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