![]() The narrative is so shallow and the characters so unengaging. This is supposed to be some great new age spy thriller. What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you? ![]() ![]() This is now the entire audiobook, not in two parts. Pilgrim will have to make a journey from a public beheading in Mecca to a deserted ruin 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. What begins as an unusual and challenging investigation will become a terrifying race against time to save America from oblivion. It is a textbook murder - and Pilgrim wrote the book. And it will take him to a run-down 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 will help NYPD detective Ben Bradley track him down. But that book will come back to haunt him. ![]() Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Pilgrim is the code name for a man who doesn't exist. National Book Awards 2014: Crime/Thriller Book of the Year ![]()
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