01904cam a2200337 i 4500 1075479502 TxAuBib 20240216120000.0 240122s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2024002062 9781668055786 HRD 32.00 1668055783 HRD 32.00 TxAuBib rda Hayes, Terry, 1951- The year of the locust [BOOK] : a thriller / Terry Hayes. First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition. New York : Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2024. 787 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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...". 20240216. United States Central Intelligence Agency Fiction. Intelligence officers Fiction. Undercover operations Fiction. Terrorism Fiction. Middle East Fiction. Spy fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.)