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The Year of the Locust
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 29 hrs and 16 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
AN AMAZING THRILLER FROM TERRY HAYES.
If, like Kane, you're a Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, then boundaries have no meaning. Your function is to go in, do whatever is required, and get out again - by whatever means necessary. You know when to run, when to hide - and when to shoot.
But some places don't play by the rules. Some places are too dangerous, even for a man of Kane's experience. The badlands where the borders of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan meet are such a place - a place where violence is the only way to survive.
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...
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Wojciech Korczynski
- 16-11-2023
Wait until its re-released with a new Narrator
Well after waiting for nearly a decade for a sequel, saying I was excited is an understatement, but my world started crashing down when I heard the voice of Jeff Harding and his drooling accent reading the first few paragraphs. Jeffs voice is incongruous with Kanes persona, Jeff is a Texas Cowboy who does an excellent job pretending to be Jack Reacher (a hard-nosed military cop, who speaks little and communicates with violence) but Kane is a Nuclear Submarine commander, fluent in multiple languages surely he does not speak 3 words a minute, with pregnant pauses between every sentence for effect, and he certainly does not intonate his voice to raise the tone at the end of every sentence. And even if he does speak slowly for effect, this is a First-person narration book so 3/4 of the text is his thoughts to himself, if he really thought so slowly (with that accent :) ) he would have died a decade ago in I am Pilgrim. The only way to listen to the book is to speed it up to 1.2 times, to lift the baritone voice to something a bit more normal, remove the pregnant pauses and speed up the word-per-minute count to something equivalent to Kanes level... Creating an Audio-book has really only one variable, picking the Narrator, I cant believe you could get it so wrong. There are so many great narrators out there who would have potrayed the character so well.. Apart from that it was good..
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- sarina t.
- 15-11-2023
Loved the book- not the narrator
I nearly returned this as soon as I heard the narrator- it was like a horrible machine, despite waiting for it for months! I didn’t think I could listen to the monotonous drawl for 32 hours.
I turned the speed up to 1:2 and this made it totally bearable and it got better as it went along.
The story was was great, if you loved I Pilgrim as I did, this is for you. It takes a really weird turn 3/4’s of the way through and goes Sci Fi- but by the end I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend it, just speed up the narration and it fixes the problem.👍
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- Anonymous User
- 15-11-2023
Terrible narration
The narration of this book honestly ruined it for me. I had been so anticipating this book ever since Pilgrim, but I just couldn’t get past the cowboy twang narration. I will buy the hard copy.
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- Tony
- 10-11-2023
Beyond disappointed with the narrator!!
I am sure this is going to be a wonderful book but, I cannot get past the narration.
Jeff Harding seems suited to telling a cowboy story around a camp fire, but a story about spy’s and international terrorism?
The story is told from Kane’s perspective so one would the man would be a polished operator that can blend in anywhere. Jeff’s version of Kane sounds light years from this.
He does not even pronounce words properly “somethin” “findin”. Even the terrorists sound like they are from Texas!
I might just return this one and buy a hard copy of the book. Disappointed.
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- J COBURN
- 27-11-2023
I waited ten years for this?!
Flat storyline; the antithesis of I Am Pilgrim. The plot was more suited to a TV show than an epic novel. Definitely a work that suffered from hurried writing and poor planning. The ultra-macho narrator was grinding and added little in the way of spark or energy. Predictable, linear and shmaltzy.
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- Anonymous User
- 29-11-2023
The Worst Book ever
I persevered with this tedious book because I so enjoyed I Am Pilgrim. It was boring with many long-winded tangents. I listened to it on Audible on nights I couldn’t sleep. Better than a powerful sleeping tablet. The worse wasted long hours of my life - a week I will never get back.
The narrator on Audible sounded like a hillbilly cowboy. Hard to believe that he supposedly spoke so many languages and could pass himself off as a native speaker. He could not even pronounce (eg) a French brand like ‘Hermes’ without a southern twang. It’s totally unbelievable that he could be so educated and ‘sophisticated’ enough to mix in non American circles without being spotted immediately as a yokel. It was embarrassing to listen to it. He made the CIA sound like a bunch of primary school bullies.
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- Anonymous User
- 29-11-2023
What a disappointing waste of time.
It was with great expectation that I purchased this new Terry HAYES book. Wow! I couldn't be more disappointed.
The narrator has received many mixed reviews by somehow I didn't mind him too much. It was the convoluted drawn out, ridiculous, overlong, disjointed saga that forced me to return the book unfinished. I struggled through the first twenty or so hours but then my commonsense took over and my patience ran out. I just could not endure anymore of the nonsensical rubbish. I gave up. It seemed like the author was writing four separate yarns but somehow managed to put them all together and managed to get them published as one. Such a waste of time especially after enjoying I am Pilgrim so much. Overall its a strong NO from me!
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- Kat Anderson
- 28-11-2023
Not great
I loved I am Pilgrim, this book is nothing like that book unfortunately. Narration was hard work, didn't align with the character, storyline too over the top. I finished the book but needed to speed up the narration speed to get through it, after such a long wait for the book, disappointing..
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- Anonymous User
- 14-11-2023
Loved it!
It took me a little bit to get into the book but once it did I was hooked. Finished in three days.
Loved the characters, so many twists and turns. So much suspense and it kept me guessing the whole way through.
I read & loved “I am pilgrim” 10 years ago and have been hanging out for Terry Hayes’ next book.
Superb storytelling by Jeff Harding. Thank you for bringing the story to life.
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- Craig Broadbent
- 09-12-2023
Weirdest book ever
I bought this because I enjoyed I am pilgrim. It’s starts out similarly but then takes a very strange twist like nothing I’ve ever read before. The result is disappointing- it’s like reading to very different books and neither one is very satisfying. Can’t really recommend it though I’m not sure what others were complaining about with the performance which I found fine.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-11-2023
NOT Anything Like I Am Pilgrim. Buyer Beware!
It pains me to give this one star. If you have picked up this book excitedly because you loved I Am Pilgrim, I would encourage you to put it back down to preserve that wonderful memory of a well crafted book.
****!!!!SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!****
Had the first half of the book had the same tone as the second half I would have been surprised but intrigued at the sci-fi elements being thrown into a spy thriller. It would have been a signal to expect something different. Alas, the first half of the book is set in a world very much like our own, without a hint of futurism - a classic spy thriller.
By having two halves of a book that feel like we were written by two entirely different people, we end up with a poorly thought out spy thriller and a clunky non-sensical sci-fi novel. Technologies that are unimaginable just appear out of thin air. Alien spore arrives to earth and not a single scientist is interested in researching. Incredulous coincidences are abound, where all the characters are just where they need to be when they need to be there. They react exactly how the plot requires them to react no matter how incredibly insane the plot becomes. The characters just accept whatever is happening without any pushback or questions like:
"Wait, what? Time travel is real and you arrived here on a time traveling invisible submarine?"
"Huh? There is literally an alien invasion occurring that is turning everyone into invincible zombies?"
"My nemesis, who I last saw in Iran is not only the cause of this dystopian future, but he is here, 24 years later, in New York at the exact same time as me? Oh and he is now also invincible and he started all this. How odd?"
"Dad? Are you seriously just going to assume you can get back into your invisible time traveling submarine and get back to the exact time you need to be"
Oh and let's not forget all the pointless side quests, faux symbolism and lack of any attempt to build anything more than 2D characters.
Sincerely, I hope I never have to use the phrase 'time traveling invisible submarine' again.
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- Anmar
- 03-12-2023
What a ride!
Not at all what I expected. The sci-fi twist took me by surprise as I’m not a fan. Still, couldn’t stop listening and held my breath for most of it. By far the best piece of writing I have read in a long while. Narration was seamless. So many twists & turns, but fast paced throughout. Never thought I’d enjoy something like this so much. Was worth the wait…
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- J.Hutton
- 29-11-2023
Strange…
The beginning of the book feels like a real accessor of ‘I am pelgrim’. However…. But seems like Terry Hayes wanted to combine a decent story with ‘the Philadelphia experiment’ and the ‘Walking dead’. Popular? But absolutely ruined a good story.. why?
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- Marilyn
- 29-11-2023
Disappointing
After reading I am Pilgrim. I have been waiting for the next book by Terry Hayes.
I found the story line deviating into a 24 year futuristic account of an almost apocalyptic world very unappealing and skipped most of that. Couldn’t wait to finish the book. Anybody with sci-fi aversion, save yourself the credit.
Marilyn
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- Anonymous User
- 23-11-2023
awesome story with a brilliant twist
storytelling is top!
loved the first book and this one is in a way much better. you'll get technically 3 books and you must love it! :)
I personally enjoyed the sci-fi twist very much despite we are looking at awesome spy thriller.
cant wait for the next book though!
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- Dr. Bryan Malakou
- 18-11-2023
Very Good Novel
Not sure I signed up for Orcs and time travel in a spy novel but it works in the end.Very well researched and tiimes of tense suspense. Not quite up to "I am Pilgrim" standard or realistic believability but close, Definitely worth listening to for 29 hours.
Well read by Jeff Harding although his attempt at talking like Rebecca and other females was a bit ear jarring and would have been better read in his normal voice:-) Has all the elements of the making of a great movie!
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- JenFox
- 15-11-2023
Special
An intricately woven timeline of espionage, intrigue & stealth. It’s a story that recounts the life of a denied area asset, covering continents & time with unpredictable consequences. It’s cleverly crafted & beautifully told. Terry Hayes is a Master Storyteller. Perfect!
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- David S.
- 24-11-2023
truly awful - one of the worse books I have read.
I can't believe that this is by the same author as "I am Pilgrim"
It lurches awkwardly from one ridiculous cliche to another connected by only the flimsiest of plots.
Scattered with every unnecessary quote and cheesy proverb, this must be one of the worse books I have ever listened to. Can't believe that I actually stuck with it to the end.
It doesn't know if it is a James bond spy story, a zombie apocalypse novel, or any of a dozen other b-movie stories with no connection to each other.
After waiting for so many years for the second novel, I couldn't be more disappointed.
The writing is terrible and makes Dan Brown's prose seem like Shakespeare by comparison. Endless unnecessary technical details about weapon specifications and implausible technology make an already awful book practically unreadable.
There is not a single original scene. Everything is stolen from action films (Terminator, the hunt for red October, etc) or sci-fi books (day of the triffids, I am legend, etc.) and all loosely connected by a 3rd rate James Bond/Jason Bourne knock off.
Every few minutes I thought that the predictable cliche might not happen only to say out loud "you've got to be kidding", but the author never failed to disappoint.
If the author is wise, he will take the money, never write anything again, sell the movie rights to Pilgrim, and retire on a pile of cash
Terry Hayes is a one hit wonder and this is not the hit
Narration is ok (not great) but the narrator had little to work with. Hard to see the narrator reading this rubbish with a straight face.
Save yourself the time and skip this one.
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- Laurence Jones
- 24-11-2023
Utterly ridiculous
Genuinely the most utterly ridiculous of any audiobook that I've listened to in the last decade. I was literally open mouthed with the absolutely crazy coincidences and prosperous narrative constructs contained in the story. A procession of outrageous dramatic impossibilities wrapped around a series of stupid coincidences and insane contrivances. I was way too deep in when this narrative finally completely jumped the shark. No one can read this and not think "What the actual f"? Ultimately it reads like the author was contractually bound to deliver the novel and did so but was ridiculing the contract. Literally the worst garbage I have read or heard since graduation in 1990 and I'm happy to damn it because it's 30+ hours of total rubbish that I'll never get back!
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- Richard A Futter
- 20-11-2023
Huge disappointment
What a car crash of a book. Terry Hayes jumps the shark so many times I lost count. What starts out as a passable but overblown thriller is transformed into a mash up of Lord of the Rings, Night of the Living Dead, Star Trek and Doctor Who. Yes we have Orks, invisibility cloaking devices to make the Klingons green with envy, accidental time travel and a hero and villain with almost superhuman survival abilities. Utter tosh.
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- charliekneecap
- 23-11-2023
You don’t always get what you want 🤔
Ten year wait , Ten hrs excitement, Ten hrs going the wrong way , Last Ten hrs on a LSD trip . 🙅🏽🤦♂️
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- Mr bob
- 22-11-2023
Total rubbish story ridiculous narration even worse
There is not one positive thing to be said about this drivel reads like it was written by AI intelligence and the narrator makes things worse honestly don’t waste your money on this after Pilgrim this is a total disappointment and I actually waited 10 years for this Hey Amazon can I have my money back as only managed the first 9 hours
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- jo johnston
- 20-11-2023
So long and so disappointing
I loved I am Pilgram, was really excited for this, but it was ridiculous. Dreams, Time travel, post epileptic world and then apparently it’s ok to tell national security secrets to the wife of an agent. The twist comes 25hrs in, which is such a long time to spend and be so disappointed.
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- Clive
- 19-11-2023
I don't think Terry Hayes wrote this!
Such a disappointing book with an incredibly long, but very superficial plot, which was very predictable. It just doesn't seem to be written by the same author. Part way through it becomes a time travel story, which was just ridiculous. The worst thing was how superficial the details were, such as the Time travel part which was all just very convenient. None of the sophisticated writing of the earlier book and so so so longwinded!
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- Paul French
- 24-11-2023
Weirdest story ever
I thought I knew what I was getting with Terry Hayes however unless you are expecting aliens, rampant overt American nationalism and a time travelling submarine you are way off base here. It’s a miss for me!
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- Geoff
- 10-11-2023
Absolutely worth the wait!
I’ve been waiting for this book for what feels like ages after absolutely loving ‘I am Pilgrim’ - it’s been absolutely worth the wait as Terry serves up another fast paced, clever and enthralling epic.
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- wibble puppy
- 27-11-2023
What a horrible let-down
I adored I Am Pilgrim and was so looking forward to this next novel. It’s laughably bad - poorly plotted, with weak characters, incessant grammatical errors and gaping holes in plot, spycraft and science. Almost its least objectionable characteristic is the vertiginous handbrake turns which lurch from one genre to another. Give this one a miss; it’s not just silly, it’s weak, poorly-written tosh.
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