?The revenge was going to be in the form of tampered vaccines whereby the highly infectious smallpox would kill thousands and millions of Americans. Highly intelligent and realising that revenge wouldn’t happen overnight, he set out on a long journey to destroy the ‘far enemy’ (America) so that it would destroy the ‘near enemy’. The Saracen’s father was beheaded when he was 14, tortured and beheaded for speaking out against the Saudi royal family. Telling the story of a man who is intent on destroying America and another man’s struggle to prevent him, it’s a complex and tightly woven novel. It has a brilliant plot, occasionally the grammar will stop you and make you need to reread the sentence but in a book this good, I’d forgive a lot. I finished it at lunchtime today, I just couldn’t put it down yesterday despite the fact that the weather was so nice and I spent a few hours outside finishing off the painting on the house. Having had a busy week at the Ploughing last week and with a busy week coming up for the blog awards, I decided to treat myself this weekend and give myself enough time to read the 880 pages, hoping to finish it by Sunday evening. I’d heard from a couple of people that I Am Pilgrim ?is a brilliant thriller so I couldn’t resist it when I spotted it recently in a bookshop even though I’d promised myself that, due to the ridiculous number of unread books on my bookshelves, I wasn’t going to buy any more books until Christmas.
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