I Am Pilgrim - Couverture rigide

Hayes, Terry

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0593064941 ISBN 13 : 9780593064948

Editeur : Bantam Press, 2013

Synopsis

The Day of the Jackal meets Homeland with a dash of Bourne - a debut thriller to take your breath away

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Terry Hayes is a former journalist and screen-writer. Born in Sussex, England, he migrated to Australia as a child and trained as a journalist at the country's leading broadsheet. At twenty-one he was appointed North American correspondent, based in New York, and after two years returned to Sydney to become an investigative reporter, political correspondent and columnist.

He resigned to produce a prominent current affairs radio program and a short time later, with George Miller, wrote the screenplay for Road Warrior/Mad Max 2. He also co-produced and wrote Dead Calm, the film which launched Nicole Kidman's international movie career, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and a large number of TV movies and mini-series - including Bodyline and Bangkok Hilton - two of which received international Emmy nominations. In all, he has won over twenty film or television awards.

After moving to Los Angeles he worked as a screen-writer on major studio productions. His credits include Payback with Mel Gibson, From Hell, starring Johnny Depp, and Vertical Limit with Chris O'Donnell. He has also done un-credited writing on a host of other movies including Reign of Fire, Cliffhanger and Flightplan, starring Jodie Foster.

I Am Pilgrim is his first novel. He and his American wife - Kristen - have four children and live in Switzerland.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A young woman murdered in a run-down Manhattan hotel.

A father publicly beheaded in the blistering sun of Saudi Arabia.

A man's eyes stolen from his living body as he leaves a secret Syrian research laboratory.

A pit of smouldering human remains on a mountainside in the Hindu Kush.

A plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity.

One thread that binds them all, one man to take the journey.

Pilgrim.

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

Can you commit the perfect crime?

Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn't exist - who once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation.

But that book will come back to haunt him. It will help NYPD detective Ben Bradley track him down. And it will take him to a rundown New York hotel room where the body of an anonymous woman is found facedown in a bath of acid. It is a textbook murder - and Pilgrim wrote the book.

What begins as a challenging investigation will become a terrifying race-against-time to save America from oblivion. Pilgrim will have to take 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 God.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0593064941
• ISBN 13: 9780593064948
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 704
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible