The Year of the Locust

By Terry Hayes,

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In this “absolutely brilliant, tension-filled tour de force” (Brad Thor) from New York Times bestselling author Terry Hayes, CIA spy Kane confronts an evil that could bring the world to a cataclysmic end.

If, like Kane, you’re a Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, then boundaries have no meaning.…

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For approximately the first 80% of this book, it is a thriller set in Afghanistan/Iran with a CIA agent on a mission. There is one surprise, namely a cruise missile takes out a target and nobody can see the missile. Then suddenly, we see the nature of the missile and the book changes to science fiction. The missile is covered with small objects that give it the invisibiity cloak. I immediately thought the author had used physics similar to what I used in my First Contact trilogy, but no, Hayes had read enough science to have a different mechanism. That…

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