booksdaa.blogg.se - I am pilgrim book series

Do you think it is true that the 'child becomes the man'? In what measure are their future characters and actions determined by these events? When Pilgrim was very young he was in the apartment in Detroit when his mother was murdered.

As a child the Saracen comes within moments of witnessing the public beheading of his father.

Ben Bradley was introduced as part of the murder investigation - how necessary was this New York homicide detective to defeating the Saracen?.

Were they both necessary to show Pilgrim's skill and character?

There are two major threads to the novel - a murder investigation and the hunt for a terrorist planning a catastrophic attack on the West.‘If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.’ Is this the major theme of the novel? Is this really Scott Murdoch's pilgrimage? Woven through the book is a Zen story which Pilgrim was told by a Buddhist monk.To what extent are they - the hero and anti-hero - the two sides of the same coin? They are also loners, trained as doctors, driven by their past, committed to their mission and ruthless in their pursuit of it. The man he chases is called the Saracen and he, too, has lived and travelled under an assumed name.

Scott Murdoch is the name he goes by in the real world, although that his not his real identity either.

Pilgrim, perhaps the best intelligence agent in the world, has lived under scores of aliases.

Take a look at our reading group questions and get the conversation started at your next book club meeting. Australian author Terry Hayes brushed shoulders with the likes of Dan Brown and JK Rowling when his book, I Am Pilgrim, debuted at #4 on the UK Sunday Times list in August 2013.