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”. Whereas A Little Life closely follows a group of four friends in New York City over the course of several decades, plunging in and out of the protagonist’s traumatic past, Yanagihara’s next novel, To Paradise, which will be published on 11 January, spans three centuries and three ‘different versions of the American experiment’. Despite this more expansive setting, it sounds likely to contain Yanagihara’s trademark anguish, with mentions of fragile characters, the AIDS epidemic and totalitarian rule. Deze reis wordt ontzettend gedetailleerd beschreven en het voelde alsof ik er zelf was. De spanning is erg goed voelbaar en ik werd erg enthousiast. De gebeurtenissen die zich afspelen in dit gebied zijn nogal barbaars.

Once he had left front-line operations, he spent several decades climbing the greasy pole in Washington, and the clothes and the image were all part of that. In the corridors of power and the elite social salons of Georgetown he was seen as both accomplished and very sophisticated; a safe pair of elegant hands. 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. Great nail-biting stuff!'--Robert Goddard 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? He resigned to produce a prominent current affairs radio program and a short time later, with George Miller, wrote the screenplay for Road Warrior/Mad Max 2. He also co-produced and wrote Dead Calm, the film which launched Nicole Kidman’s international movie career, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and a large number of TV movies and mini-series – including Bodyline and Bangkok Hilton – two of which received international Emmy nominations. In all, he has won over twenty film or television awards. Epic and immersive, new and unexpected, and his research into spycraft is deep and compelling Mail on SundayLike 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 The relationship with his girlfriend, Becca proves how human and vulnerable Kane is and the dynamic between them was great - especially later on in the book - I loved how she stands up to Falcon in a particular scene and exhibits...gumption which is a trait I greatly admire. Needless to say, that realization fuelled the frustration of the expensively tailored man in our corner office and encouraged him to redouble the agency’s efforts to find him. Believe me, there has never been a shortage of testosterone at the highest levels of the intelligence world. Horror Writers Association - Past Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". www.horror.org . Retrieved 8 January 2019.

The consequences for the eight men and two women who were unmasked as a result of our asset’s betrayal were far more catastrophic. They appeared before a judge in a late-night trial and the next day workmen started to assemble ten towering construction cranes in one of Tehran’s largest squares. While members of the public didn’t pay much attention at first, their purpose soon became clear: it was to ensure that as many people as possible could witness the court’s sentence being carried out. In many countries in the Middle East it is not enough that people are punished; everybody else must be warned.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... As good, if not better, than Hayes' debut. Don't make any plans for the week after you start reading' Daily Mirror Scott-Kerr said: “There is little in publishing terms that will give me more pleasure than releasing Terry’s new book. He is one of the great storytellers of contemporary thriller fiction and certainly not the sort of writer to rest on his laurels, even after writing such a classic as I Am Pilgrim.” EC: Can you give us a heads up about …more I don't believe this is actually "Pilgrim 2". I read an interview with Terry Hayes and will post his answer here: I Am Pilgrim is a twelve-course meal of a thriller.... A breathtaking accomplishment of a debut.'--Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author of Tell No Lies