This book has over six hundred pages surely he will develop a personality in time.

The bestest, baddest super spy of them all - the so-called 'Pilgrim' - seems a little generic and lacking in characterization beyond the repeated affirmations by everyone that he really is THE BEST at everything, but that's okay. murder, sex, perfect crimes - who wouldn't be interested at this point? The scene is so lacking in evidence that it looks like we got a badass on our hands.Ĭome on. It opens with a grisly murder, seemingly sexual in nature, with the victim dissolving in acid in the bathtub. The novel is broken up into 'parts', each dealing with a different part of Pilgrim's life - as an Intelligence agent, an assassin, a criminal investigator, etc. I picked up I Am Pilgrim after seeing it on Goodreads' 16 Underrated Books That Deserve Your Attention post, and thinking that it was about time I found myself a fast-paced thriller.Īnd it starts fairly well, I'll give it that. I am giving up around the halfway point - which is arguably very generous for a 600-page book - because I'm just getting more and more irritated.

I couldn't stop thinking about it.' 'A brilliant, thought-provoking story and one I hope will never come true!' THE YEAR OF THE LOCUST, the ground-breaking second novel from Terry Hayes, is available to pre-order now.Okay, I just can't do it. _ Readers are gripped by I Am Pilgrim: 'A real page turner that no one should miss!' 'Slick, gritty and cinematic. The only man who can uncover a flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity. The codename for a man who doesn't exist. Abandoned on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. All of her identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. Killed in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. Great nail-biting stuff.' Robert Goddard _ SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. Visceral, gritty and cinematic.' The Times 'An all too plausible disaster for the world we live in. 'Simply one of the best suspense novels I've read in a long time.' David Baldacci 'A big, breathless tale of nonstop suspense.' The New York Times 'The plot twists and turns like a python in a sack. The astonishing story of one man's breakneck race against time to save America from oblivion.

I am pilgrim by terry hayes