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I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
5.0

This debut espionage thriller depicts the collision course between two geniuses, one a tortured hero and one a determined terrorist, in a breakneck story reminiscent of John le Carré and Robert Ludlum at their finest.

PILGRIM is the code name for a world class and legendary secret agent who comes out of retirement to help the NYPD investigate a murder of an unidentifiable victim. His adversary is a man known only to the reader as the Saracen. As a young boy, the Saracen is marked for life when his dissident father is beheaded in a Saudi Arabian public square.

Everything in the Saracen’s life from this moment forward will be in service to jihad and move toward unleashing a bioterrorism attack on the U.S. Part police procedural and part international spy thriller, this is a riveting page turner.

Reviewed by Connie.

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