A review by lennartde
The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes

2.0

Ten years after „The Pilgrim“, Terry Hayes follows his debut hit with „The Year of the Locust“. At the outset, this starts familiar enough as a terrorist hunt against an Al Qaeda-like group with a sufficiently evil mastermind. The story follows a denied access area spy hunting a terrorist behind enemy lines in Iran. The book progresses nicely, right up until the last third when it swerves into science fiction territory. After Hayes famously pushed this back for a number of years, he concludes the book with a twist that would not have been amiss in this year’s Indiana Jones movie. Unfortunately, this is not a compliment - neither for the book nor the movie…