I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes, 612 pages.

This large, well-reviewed thriller is fast-paced and well-plotted, but gets a little over-wrought and repetitive in parts. The story involves an American agent, retired from the Division, a super-secret spy agency. He is Pilgrim, but he goes by many other names over the course of the tale, Scott Murdoch and Jude Garret among them. He has a dramatically tragic back-story, and upon meeting him every other character in the book, those in the law enforcement or spy business anyway, are required to acknowledge that he is and was the best agent EVER.  Despite telling the readers this time and again, Pilgrim often seems to lack common sense-he forgets that Greece is rather close to Turkey, he leaves his captured enemy alone in a room with a loaded gun, and he fails to realize that a massive storm and the resulting power outage might change the plans of the person whose house he intends to search.
Anyway, Pilgrim faces off against a Saudi national who is determined to bring down the his country's ruling class by attacking the US through an unprecedented act of bio-terrorism. This man, who was a mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan, and who went to medical school in order to bring his plan to fruition, also has several names, chief among those, the Saracen.
Despite its flaws, it's a fun book, and it rambles along quickly. Great for fans of Clancy, Barry Eisler, and Giorgio Faletti.

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