TY - BOOK AU - Hayes, Terry, TI - The year of the locust SN - 9780593064979 U1 - 823.92 23/eng/20231108 PY - 2023/// CY - London : PB - Bantam, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, KW - United States KW - Central Intelligence Agency KW - Fiction KW - Australian fiction KW - Intelligence officers KW - Terrorism KW - Submarines (Ships) KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft KW - Spy fiction N2 - 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 ER -