Terry Hayes
A breakneck race against time...and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. A flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity. One path links them all, and only one man can make the journey. Pilgrim.
This is another 4-for-a-dollar selection from the Dakota County Library. The above breathless description got me to take it home, and the mile-a-minute tapestry of a plot kept me reading. It was a little off-putting when a new character was introduced and all of a sudden there were several chapters of backstory...but it all was woven together with an expert eye for detail and an on-the-edge-of-your-seat urgency that made it forgivable. It's not surprising to learn that Terry Hayes is an award-winning writer and producer of several movies, including Payback and Road Warrior.
First Line: There are places I'll remember all my life - Red Square with a hot wind howling across it, my mother's bedroom on the wrong side of Eight Mile, the endless gardens of a fancy foster home, a man waiting to kill me in a group of ruins known as the Theater of Death.
Page 56 / Line 5: It was a good story, but it didn't mean anything to me, not now anyway.
A Good Line from Somewhere in the Middle: At that moment I realized what our mistake had been - we had been hunting him when we should have been trapping him.
Last Line: He is risen.
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