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Gross, author of “Everything to Lose” and co-author of six James Patterson novels, and English-born screenwriter/producer Hayes, author of the new book “I Am Pilgrim,” will discuss their latest works.
This event is free and open to the public, for registration, visit: www.fairfieldpubliclibrary.org.
The talk is part of the Inspired Writer Series, the distinguished author series of Fairfield University’s MFA in Creative Writing, and is co-sponsored by the library.
Hayes is a former journalist and screenwriter whose credits include “Road Warrior/Mad Max 2,” (Mel Gibson) “From Hell,” (Johnny Depp) and “Dead Calm,” the film that launched Nicole Kidman’s career, as well as a host of television miniseries, including “Bangkok Hilton.” In all, he has won more than 20 film and television awards.
“I Am Pilgrim” is Hayes first novel and his prose is being compared to that of John le Carré and Robert Ludlum. The story centers on Pilgrim, the code name for a world-class secret agent whose adversary is a man known to the reader only as the Saracen. Having seen his dissident father beheaded in a public square in Saudi Arabia, Saracen has grown up with a burning desire to destroy the relationship between the U.S. and the Kingdom. As the tale unfolds, Pilgrim is drawn back into the intelligence underground to thwart Saracen’s quest for jihad.
Due on bookstore shelves May 27, “I Am Pilgrim” is receiving lavish praise. Booklist dubbed it “simply unputdownable.”
Gross is the New York Times bestselling author of “15 Seconds” and “No Way Back.” His latest novel, “Everything to Lose,” follows a determined mother who becomes entangled in a murderous conspiracy to keep a 20-year-old secret buried. The blistering thriller is set in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which should resonate with local residents.
Kirkus Reviews called the book “a tightly wound, realistic thriller.”
For more information on Fairfield’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, visit www.fairfield.edu/mfa.
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