Mad Max movies blazed Terry Hayes’ path to I Am Pilgrim novel! VIDEO - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob A

Today's Guest: Writer Terry Hayes, author of the globe-trotting spy novel I Am Pilgrim (on sale May 27, 2014) as well as two Mad Max movies with Mel Gibson, The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome, as well as From Hell, and Dead Calm.

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with writer Terry Hayes, author of the globe-trotting spy novel I Am Pilgrim as well as Mad Max movies such as The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome, as well as From Hell, and Dead Calm by clicking on the video player above!

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of fictional characters that seemed a lot more exciting and manageable in my imagination than in my living room… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

You can be forgiven if your first thought upon seeing – or picking up – Terry Hayes’ first novel, I Am Pilgrim, is that it’s going to be less a soaring adventure than a hefty paperweight.

But I’m here to tell you that, at 612 pages, it is worth every minute of lifting and reading that you’ll invest in getting from the first page to the last.

It’s that good.
TERRY HAYES podcast excerpt: "Pilgrim is a guy who longs for love. But like so many people, he's not quite sure how to find it. He says at one point in the book that he wants to walk along a beach with somebody that he can love and not think about how far a sniper rifle can fire. Not the fact you're dead before you even hear the sound."
You can LISTEN to this interview with writer TERRY HAYES, author of I AM PILGRIM and screenwriter of MAD MAX: THE ROAD WARRIOR, MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME, FROM HELL, and DEAD CALM, by clicking the audio player above!

This is the stuff of traditional page-turners: rugged action, globe-trotting adventure, and can’t-wait-to-see-how-it-ends suspense.

Not that the cinematic nature of this intense spy thriller is by accident; author Hayes has some pretty impressive film credits to his name, incl