# The Year of the Locust

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- Book: [The Year of the Locust](https://www.bookquiver.com/terry-hayes/the-year-of-the-locust) ([The Year of the Locust.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/terry-hayes/the-year-of-the-locust.md))
- Authors: [Terry Hayes](https://www.bookquiver.com/terry-hayes)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-18-0499-215-9
- Pages: 672
- Published: 2024-06-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...