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The Year of the Locust

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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

Critics Review

Worth the wait... an often captivating, mass-market adventure story that's mostly more treat than trick
The Times
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
'[Hayes] is brilliant at action and military technology'
Sunday Times
Epic and immersive, new and unexpected, and his research into spycraft is deep and compelling
Mail on Sunday
Brilliant on the way agents operate and how the US spies on the world
Sun
Compelling, nerve-jangling and breathlessly exciting... Totally immersive
Irish Independent
An absolutely nail biter of a thriller
Glamour
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
Financial Times
With vivid descriptions, some terrific action sequences and lashings of suspense, the book ticks all the boxes necessary for a superior geopolitical thriller
Guardian
Author Terry Hayes
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 29 hours and 16 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473543522
Format Audiobook
Publisher Transworld
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, Thriller: terrorism
Availability AU, GB, IE

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