The Year of the Locust: The ground-breaking second novel from the internationally bestselling author of I AM PILGRIM

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Advances in technology are, however, starting to make their efforts more precise. Drones with elastic launchers, which can travel hundreds of kilometres while mapping areas of greenery have been added to the defence arsenal. Then there’s the role of Cressman’s office, which guides the country teams using remote sensing imagery.

Whereas A Little Life closely follows a group of four friends in New York City over the course of several decades, plunging in and out of the protagonist’s traumatic past, Yanagihara’s next novel, To Paradise, which will be published on 11 January, spans three centuries and three ‘different versions of the American experiment’. Despite this more expansive setting, it sounds likely to contain Yanagihara’s trademark anguish, with mentions of fragile characters, the AIDS epidemic and totalitarian rule.Horror Writers Association - Past Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". www.horror.org . Retrieved 8 January 2019. This portion of the book sees Kane getting displaced forward in time after a disastrous voyage in a prototype submarine that has cloaking technology and he finds himself 24 years in the future where New York is an apocalyptic landscape and The Locust has been hell bent on destroying the world - pretty out there, huh?

TH: Because I had no guarantees or expectations for I am Pilgrim to be successful I decided to write a stand-alone novel, The Year of the Locust. It should be out in eighteen months and is centered on cloaking technology, where objects appear invisible even though they are really there. There is a lot of research being done on this by the military. I would describe it as “Planet of The Apes” meets “Lost,” or “Star-Trek” like.

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Move over Jason Bourne. CIA operative Kane redefines the smart but vulnerable bad ass super spy in this dazzling cat-and-mouse thriller where the entire globe is a chessboard, and everyone’s playing for keeps Lisa Gardner The only clue to any possible difficulties Hayes might have had in the writing is that Kane’s mission comes to a climax fairly early, and then, after the novel has trodden water for a little while, he embarks on another one: there’s a slight sense of cut-and-shut. While the first half chronicles events you might expect to read about in tomorrow’s newspaper, the second half is an excursion into sci-fi. Kane travels there to exfiltrate a man with vital information for the safety of the West, but instead he meets an adversary who will take the world to the brink of extinction. A frightening, clever, vicious man with blood on his hands and vengeance in his heart…” In a desperate need for an editor, or perhaps a team of them, armed with red pens and a strong pot of coffee, "Year of the Locust" is a testament to the fact that sometimes less is indeed more. More editing, less... well, everything else. The book is a wild ride, but not in the way one hopes. It's like being on a bike with square wheels – sure, it's a unique experience, but you can't help but think a regular bike would have been a better choice. Wanneer je, net als Kane, werkzaam bent als spion voor de CIA in Denied Access Area’s, dan hebben grenzen geen betekenis. Jouw taak is om je toegang te verschaffen, te doen wat nodig is en weer te ontsnappen… op welke manier dan ook. Je weet wanneer je moet rennen, wanneer je je moet verstoppen en wanneer je moet schieten.