In all, he has won over twenty film or television awards.Īfter moving to Los Angeles he worked as a screen-writer on major studio productions. 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. 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. 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. Born in Sussex, England, he migrated to Australia as a child and trained as a journalist at the country's leading broadsheet. Terry Hayes is a former journalist and screen-writer. The narrative is thrilling: the tension tightens with action.It's a murder mystery, an illuminating account of contemporary international politics and a study of an unusual man.An excellent thriller which as a first novel is really remarkable * Literary Review * Great nail-biting stuff! * Robert Goddard * Rendition yourself into a pulsating thriller that never lets up as it carries the hero and the reader on an ever more desperate race between time and an all too plausible disaster for the world we live in. The style is visceral, gritty and cinematic.A satisfying and ambitious book, written with skill and verve - Adam LeBor * The Times * The plot twists and turns like a python in a sack. I Am Pilgrim is a 21st century thriller: a high concept plot, but with finely drawn protagonists. Delivers thrills and spills.A full tilt mix of Homeland, The Wire and The Bourne Ultimatum * Mail on Sunday *
An astonishing piece of work - Linwood Barclay The best thriller I've read in ten years. Winner of Specsavers National Book Awards: Crime/Thriller Book of the Year 2014,Short-listed for CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2014 'An all too plausible disaster for the world we live in. 'S imply one of the best suspense novels I've read in a long time.' David Baldacci 'A big, breathless tale of nonstop suspense.' The New York Times Visceral, gritty and cinematic.' The Times 'The plot twists and turns like a python in a sack. The only man who can uncover a flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity. The codename for a man who doesn't exist. Abandoned on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. All of her identifying characteristics dissolved by acid.Ī SYRIAN BIOTECH EXPERT FOUND EYELESS.
Killed in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square.Ī YOUNG WOMAN DISCOVERED. The astonishing story of one man's breakneck race against time to save America from oblivion.Ī FATHER PUBLICLY BEHEADED.
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