Then two people recommended it to me, just days apart. To be honest, I had no intention of ever reading this book. Terry Hayes’ I Am Pilgrim is one of those hefty tomes you pack in your holiday luggage, not only because it will keep you occupied for the entire length of time you’re away, but also because the story is so thrilling you won’t grow bored. Proof that my tastes are fairly wide-ranging and eclectic doesn’t come more obvious than this. OL17354744W Page_number_confidence 97.61 Pages 714 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200619193224 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 603 Scandate 20200609053602 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780593064948 Tts_version 3.Fiction – Kindle edition Transworld Digital 625 pages 2013. Pilgrim will have to make a journey from a public beheading in Mecca to a deserted ruins on the Turkish coast via a Nazi death camp in Alsace and the barren wilderness of the Hindu Kush in search of the faceless man who would commit an appalling act of mass murder in the name of his GodĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:04:10 Boxid IA1823208 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier What begins as an unusual and challenging investigation will become a terrifying race-against-time to save America from oblivion. It is a textbook murder - and Pilgrim wrote the book.

And it will take him to a rundown New York hotel room where the body of a woman is found facedown in a bath of acid, her features erased, her teeth missing, her fingerprints gone. It will help NYPD detective Ben Bradley track him down. But that book will come back to haunt him. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. When NYPD Ben Bradley tracks down Pilgrim, neither man can imagine the terrifying journey they are about to begin, as what begins as an unusual and challenging murder investigation leads them into a direct collision course with the dark forces of jihadist terrorismĬan you commit the perfect crime? Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn't exist. He was once head of a secret internal affairs force for US intelligence. Pilgrim was the codename for a world class and legendary secret agent.

I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes