The Year of the Locust: The ground-breaking second novel from the internationally bestselling author of I AM PILGRIM

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The action is so real that you find yourself holding your breath even though you know the main character is narrating the story.

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? In East Africa, however, locust invasions are rarer. This year has been the worst for 25 years and, in Kenya, for 70 years. 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. I wasn’t surprised that the crowd had reacted with silence. It has been my misfortune to witness a number of executions – several by firing squad, two by hanging and one when an elderly man had been strapped into an electric chair and forced to ‘ride the lightning’, as the guards on death row call it – and I can promise you: the terror on the face of a man or woman as everything they had hoped to be vanishes into eternity never leaves you. The memory of it will surface at 3 a.m. when everything you fear most in the world is on its way, coming up the stairs to find you.The protagonist, Kane is what you call an elite operator for the CIA, a denied access area spy and when a mission needs to be completed in some of the most dangerous places in the world: Iran, Pakistan, Russia, China, North Korea etc. they don't send in the Special Activities Division - they send Kane instead.

I once went to kill a man. At other times, in younger days, I had followed my work through the neon-lit alleys of Tokyo, watched the sun rise over the Mosque of the Nine Cupolas and waited on the waterfront in Old Istanbul as a woman’s tears fell like rain. 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.Terry Hayes (born 8 October 1951) is an English-born Australian screenwriter, producer and author best known for his work with the Kennedy Miller film production house and his debut novel I Am Pilgrim. A locust invasion can decimate the food supply of an entire population, particularly when they are in their infancy – the ‘hopper’ stage, when they are completely uncontrollable,” says Nakalembe. An assistant research professor and leader of the NASA Harvest Africa programme at the University of Maryland, her research focuses on agriculture and the use of satellite data in East Africa.

There was plenty with which to find fault – nobody would say that Hayes, best known previously as a screenwriter on Mad Max films in the 1980s, is a master of style or characterisation – but there was something elemental about the book, a rare sense that the outcome of its contests of brain and brawn really mattered.

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