Una novela trepidante con una acción imparable.
Ésta es la historia de una carrera contra el tiempo y, sobre todo, contra un enemigo sofisticado e implacable.
En una plaza pública de Arabia Saudí, un hombre es ajusticiado bajo un sol abrasador y un chico de catorce años observa impotente entre la muchedumbre: es su hijo.
En un lúgubre hotel de Manhattan, aparece el cuerpo sin vida de una mujer joven y todos los indicios para identificarla han sido eliminados minuciosamente.
En un vertedero de Damasco, un destacado experto sirio en biotecnología es encontrado con evidentes signos de tortura.
En una remota región de Afganistán, el hallazgo de una sustancia bacteriológica letal en los restos de unos cooperantes internacionales desata la alarma.
Una línea invisible conecta todos estos hechos, dibujando un plan perfecto para cometer un monstruoso crimen contra la humanidad, y la única persona capaz de impedirlo es un ex agente que huye de su pasado y ha borrado su identidad: ahora sólo responde al nombre de Pilgrim, el peregrino.
Reseñas:
«El único thriller que tienes que leer este año. Por una vez, la pura verdad.»
The Guardian
«Soy Pilgrim es, sencillamente, una de las mejores novelas de suspense que he leído en mucho tiempo.»
David Baldacci
«Podría ser la mejor novela de espías de toda una generación.»
Roger Hobbs, autor de Ghostman
«Un relato ambicioso, de un suspense inagotable que te deja sin aliento.»
The New York Times
«Un rompecabezas geopolítico de notable realismo. Terry Hayes retrata el mundo en toda su complejidad, y logra que la trama avance a un ritmo sobrecogedor.»
Lire
«Un thriller excepcional.»
Publishers Weekly
«La novela perfecta para leer en vacaciones.»
Newsday
«Lector, que no te inquiete la extensión del libro. El argumento es impecable y pasarás las páginas a toda velocidad. No podrás dejar de leer.»
Booklist
«Un thriller del siglo XXI: un argumento sofisticado con protagonistas perfectamente caracterizados [...]. Un libro ambicioso y satisfactorio, escrito con talento y vitalidad.»
The Times of London
«Soy Pilgrim es el mejor libro de 2014.»
Huffingtonpost.com
Can you commit the perfect crime?
Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn't exist. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation.
But that book will come back to haunt him. It will help NYPD detective Ben Bradley track him down. And it will take him to a rundown New York hotel room where the body of a woman is found facedown in a bath of acid, her features erased, her teeth missing, her fingerprints gone. It is a textbook murder - and Pilgrim wrote the book.
What begins as an unusual and challenging investigation will become a terrifying race-against-time to save America from oblivion. Pilgrim will have to make a journey from a public beheading in Mecca to a deserted ruins on the Turkish coast via a Nazi death camp in Alsace and the barren wilderness of the Hindu Kush in search of the faceless man who would commit an appalling act of mass murder in the name of his God.
Critics are calling I AM PILGRIM:"Unputdownable." -Booklist "The best book of 2014." -Suspense Magazine "The next Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." -The New York PostA breakneck race against time...and an implacable enemy.An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. A flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity. One path links them all, and only one man can make the journey.Pilgrim.
Can you commit the perfect crime?
Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn't exist. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation.
But that book will come back to haunt him. It will help NYPD detective Ben Bradley track him down. And it will take him to a rundown New York hotel room where the body of a woman is found facedown in a bath of acid, her features erased, her teeth missing, her fingerprints gone. It is a textbook murder - and Pilgrim wrote the book.
What begins as an unusual and challenging investigation will become a terrifying race-against-time to save America from oblivion. Pilgrim will have to make a journey from a public beheading in Mecca to a deserted ruins on the Turkish coast via a Nazi death camp in Alsace and the barren wilderness of the Hindu Kush in search of the faceless man who would commit an appalling act of mass murder in the name of his God.
Can you commit the perfect crime?
Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn't exist. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation.
But that book will come back to haunt him. It will help NYPD detective Ben Bradley track him down. And it will take him to a rundown New York hotel room where the body of a woman is found facedown in a bath of acid, her features erased, her teeth missing, her fingerprints gone. It is a textbook murder - and Pilgrim wrote the book.
What begins as an unusual and challenging investigation will become a terrifying race-against-time to save America from oblivion. Pilgrim will have to make a journey from a public beheading in Mecca to a deserted ruins on the Turkish coast via a Nazi death camp in Alsace and the barren wilderness of the Hindu Kush in search of the faceless man who would commit an appalling act of mass murder in the name of his God.
