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The Year of the Locust

By: Terry Hayes
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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Brought to you by Penguin.

A Financial Times Best Thriller of the Year 2023

If, like Kane, you're a Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, then boundaries have no meaning. Your function is to go in, do whatever is required, and get out again - by whatever means necessary. You know when to run, when to hide - and when to shoot.

But some places don't play by the rules. Some places are too dangerous, even for a man of Kane's experience. The badlands where the borders of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan meet are such a place - a place where violence is the only way to survive.

Kane travels there to exfiltrate a man with vital information for the safety of the West - but instead he meets an adversary who will take the world to the brink of extinction. A frightening, clever, vicious man with blood on his hands and vengeance in his heart...

‘Utterly gripping, elegantly written... most definitely worth the wait’ Observer
'Epic and immersive, new and unexpected... deep and compelling' Mail on Sunday
'Compare this with the thrillers written by Mr or Mrs Clinton, and you come away feeling that Hayes is the one who has more inside knowledge' Telegraph

Sunday Times bestseller, January 2024

©2023 Terry Hayes (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Critic reviews

Worth the wait... an often captivating, mass-market adventure story that's mostly more treat than trick (James Owen)
Compare this with the thrillers written by Mr or Mrs Clinton, and you come away feeling that Hayes is the one who has more inside knowledge (Jake Kerridge)
'[Hayes] is brilliant at action and military technology' (John Dugdale)
Epic and immersive, new and unexpected, and his research into spycraft is deep and compelling
Brilliant on the way agents operate and how the US spies on the world
Compelling, nerve-jangling and breathlessly exciting... Totally immersive
An absolutely nail biter of a thriller
Move over Jason Bourne. CIA operative Kane redefines the smart but vulnerable bad ass super spy in this dazzling cat-and-mouse thriller where the entire globe is a chessboard, and everyone’s playing for keeps (Lisa Gardner)
Has all the cinematic sweep and verve as Hayes' debut... just as enthralling
With vivid descriptions, some terrific action sequences and lashings of suspense, the book ticks all the boxes necessary for a superior geopolitical thriller
All stars
Most relevant
I was absolutely sucked into this epic story , it was worth every second of the wait . Please don’t make us wait so long for the next one though 😊

Oh my goodness was it worth the wait

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I Am Pilgrim made some sense, but this made none. Started out as a novel about an Islamic terror attack and then morphed into a far fetched science fiction story with an impossibly capable CIA agent, a time travelling submarine and alien viruses causing a zombie apocalypse. Luckily our hero sorted it all out and then they all got to live happily ever after, except the bad guy. He got his comeuppance, naturally!

Weird, unbelievable and not what I was expecting!

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While a very long book, Hayes’s keeps the pace moving along a on a very wide story arc. An enjoyable read and good sequel to I am Pilgrim.

Great sequel

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The sci fi futuristic bit was too unreal for me. I felt a little betrayed by it.

A great story

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If the story has stayed with its first theme, Jack Carr style black ops, it would have been a 5 star. The writing and performances are amazing.
When submarine section reaches the surfacing point…. Spoiler alert…. My advice would be to turn it off, see that as the end.
If you continue then prepare to be surprised and either disappointed as I was, or impressed at the incredibly complicated route to find an ending which covers just about every genre you can imagine. It’s no surprise that Terry wrote Mad Max, let’s just leave it at that.
The performer did a fab job, well done at all levels , I really feel like you have our hero his own voice, lovely work.

The craziest rollercoaster of a book ever 😂.

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