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Terry HayesI Am PilgrimTerry HayesI Am PilgrimA ThrillerQUALITY PAPERBACK
UPC: 9781439177730Release Date: 12/2/2014
LIST PRICE: $17.00 (you save $5.10)
Main description:Critics are calling I AM PILGRIM: Review quote:"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. Thestyle is visceral, gritty and cinematic...A satisfying and ambitious book, written with skill and verve." Review quote:"I Am Pilgrim is a twelve-course meal of a thriller.... A breathtaking accomplishment of a debut." Review quote:"Debut novelist Hayes brings well-refined storytelling chops to...[good] entertainment for readers with a penchant for mayhem, piles of bodies and a lethal biochemical agent or two." Review quote:"Exhilarating...Hayes masterfully guides readers through an incredibly elaborate, drum-tight plot." Review quote:"High-octane." Review quote:"I Am Pilgrim features great character development and an expansive, ambitious storyline as it sets the standard for the post-9/11 spy thriller." Review quote:"'I Am Pilgrim' is [a] gripping debut novel, which pits a brilliant intelligence operative against an equally brilliant terrorist. Weighing in at over 600 pages, you get your money’s worth and more with this thriller." Review quote:"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." Review quote:"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!" Review quote:"The best book of 2014." Review quote:"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." Review quote:"The next 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'." Review quote:"This murder mystery/spy thriller grabs you from the first sentence and won’t let you out of its grip. A brilliant American secret agent and forensics expert is in a race against the clock to stop a terrorist with a plan to destroy the United States. Please fasten your seat belt." Review quote:"THRILLER OF THE WEEK. Delivers thrills and spills...A full tilt mix of Homeland, The Wire and The Bourne Ultimatum." Review quote:“[A] powerful and formidably researched globe-spanning thriller.” Review quote:“[I Am Pilgrim] is like a Jack Higgins novel by way of John Le Carré with more than a dash of Charles Dickens.” Review quote:“[Terry Hayes is a] masterful novelist wizard.” Review quote:“I Am Pilgrim isan all too realistic tale of the dangers the next generation of terrorists cancatastrophically impose. The well-developed characters and the non-stopaction combine to produce a page-turning un“The storytelling and a truly intriguing protagonist make “I Am Pilgrim” a contender for best-of-the-year lists.” |
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