Terry Hayes
Translator: María José Díez Pérez
Editorial: Planet
Original publication year: 2023
Kane is a CIA agent in a Restricted Access Zone, as the US intelligence service calls it. That is, a guy prepared to work in a hostile place, where a spy can only enter, do what he has to do and leave in the shortest time possible. And even so, your life is at constant risk meanwhile.
‘The Year of the Lobster’ is an almost endless adventure novel, the kind that leaves you exhausted
Any mistake, any misstep, any unresolved detail can end not only with your life, but with a torture as cruel as it is shockingto try to extract from him every last bit of information he has.
Knowing how we know this from the first pages, it is surprising that, as readers, we are with my heart in my fist during the more than 800 that make up the tremendous The year of the locust. An almost endless adventure novel, the kind that leaves you exhausted, the kind that needs your energy to finish the mission.
The locust attack
With a setting as immense as the current geopolitical map, Terry Hayes composes a story in which absolutely everything fits: loyalty, betrayals, love, desire, fear, anger, friendship, pain, death, hope and above all, uncertainty. An exciting journey led by a movie character: Agent Kane.
Agent Kane has been molded in the maximum security basements of the CIA, trained to face the most adverse conditions.
A man molded in the maximum security basements of the CIA, trained to face the most adverse conditions and to overcome the most unthinkable obstacles. Built to capture the most dangerous terrorists and bloodthirsty that, on this occasion, he is going to face a rival as astute or more astute than him.
An Al Qaeda leader, founder of one of the most dangerous factions of the Islamic Army, which is about to launch a devastating plan for the entire West. A cruel, lethal man, hardened in a thousand battles and raised in one of the most brutal regions on the entire planet, Siberia. A man marked by his childhood and by a tattoo that covers his entire back: a lobster. The animal that precedes the plague.
And that is what that terrorist intends. Fall like a plague on the entire West. Strike a blow on a large scale that only Agent Kane can thwart, sent alone to the inhospitable border between Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, where every local can be an informant for the Islamic State and where His life is worth less than the ponies on which he crosses the arid mountains. of the area.
The legacy of ‘I Am Pilgrim’
And the descriptions of the terrain, the preparation of American intelligencethe action, the suspicion of each encounter with a stranger, the passages about Kane’s private life, are so well told that one cannot help but be there, hand in hand with the spy, fearing for one’s own life. , getting scared by the unexpected reactions of a peasant or unleashing his euphoria when managing to escape from an ambush.
Terry Hayes’ talent is enormous in making us complicit in history
Because Terry Hayes’ talent is enormous in making us complicit in history. A breathtaking ability for action that he has already demonstrated in all the scripts he has signed, from ‘Mad Max 2. The Road Warrior’to ‘Vertical limit’, but which has definitely exploded when it has been converted into a novel. His first book, I’m Pilgrim It has been an international success with more than five million copies sold..
Ten years after that overwhelming triumph, Hayes is back with his second novel: an equally exciting story that draws on current international geopolitics, which talks about things we all fear and that pushes you through a spiral of action, fear and espionage that is as entertaining as it is exciting. The perfect book to devour during a week spent in a hammock on the beach without lifting your head from the paper.
