Terry Hayes, author of the bestseller I Am Pilgrim, returns with a terrifying and eagerly awaited new thriller. CIA Agent Kane travels to the badlands of Afghanistan: a place where violence is the only way to survive. He must 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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A copy of The Year of the Locust is included with full admission and will be signed by the author at the event.
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About the Author: Terry Hayes is a former journalist and Emmy-nominated screen-writer. He wrote screenplays for, amongst others, Mad Max 2 – Road Warrior, Dead Calm, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Payback, From Hell and Vertical Limit, along with many un-credited writing on a host of other movies including Reign of Fire, Cliffhanger and Flightplan. The Year of the Locust is Terry Hayes’ second novel. His first, I Am Pilgrim was an international bestseller.

About the Moderator: Knopf has published eighteen mystery/thriller novels. The eighteenth, Blood Bank, was released last fall. Two Time was one of thirteen mysteries listed in Marilyn Stasio’s “Recommended Summer Reading” column in The New York Times Book Review. Head Wounds was cited as a best mystery of the year by Mysterious Reviews and Deadly Pleasures, receiving the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Mystery. Dead Anyway received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus and Library Journal, also a Boston Globe Best Crime Novel, and winning the Nero Award. Short story Kill Switch was short-listed for the Derringer Award.

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