![]() ![]() What he uncovers is a plot to cause massive harm to the American population. Because he feels responsible, he agrees to take on this new assignment. It turns out that those techniques were taken right from the forensics handbook written by our main character – the man that will become Pilgrim. Further techniques were used to make identification of the victim impossible. A woman’s body is found in a seedy motel and the corpse has been doused with acid to destroy all evidence. The book starts with a perplexing murder. In many ways, it follows the structure of those Victorian Bildungsroman novels you read in school: except instead of being the coming-of-age tale of an ingénue, readers are presented with the maturation of a government assassin. ![]() At its heart, I Am Pilgrim is a spy novel but in a twist not typically seen in such testosterone heavy works, I Am Pilgrim is also a tale of a man finding his place in the world when he thinks that time has passed on and left him in the dust. ![]()
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