I Am Pilgrim
by Terry Hayes, Atria/Emily Bestler Books, Kindle version, Simon and Shuster Digital Sales, Inc.
This book is a thriller but it is long. The author provides quite a bit of detailed background about every move the main character and his nemesis makes. Most of the background is necessary but it does at to the length of the book.
One aspect of the book that I was especially pleased about was that much of the action took place in Bodrum, Turkey, a place we had visited just a few years ago. While we weren’t there long, it was one of the prettiest spots that I have ever seen with its Crusader castle in the harbor and the green and blue shades of water. The author describes it in one of the passages and it took me right back to the place.
Back to the novel. I was a bit mystified about the connection between a murder that took place in New York City a few months after 911 and the eventual pursuit of an Islamist terrorist. The main character is called in to take a look at the murder scene and he surmises that it is a woman. Later in the book, his pursuit of the terrorist takes him to Bodrum Turkey, but he uses his investigation of another murder that took place in Bodrum as his cover for being there. While he is attempting to locate the terrorist, he finds out that the murder in Bodrum was committed by the same person who committed the murder in New York. I realize that an author of fiction can use some license to create coincidences that would otherwise be unrealistic, but this one is unbelievable to me. Maybe if his character hadn’t been present at the first murder, it may have been more realistic, but I am having trouble buying into this scenario. I would have given the book a much higher rating if it had been a little more believable and perhaps not quite so long.
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