![]() ![]() Pilgrim is trained in Krav Maga, an Israeli system of self-defence - ''according to people who know, the most highly regarded form of unarmed combat among New York drug dealers north of 140th Street'', and Saracen can metamorphose from a seemingly humanitarian doctor in strife-torn areas into an almost invisible street-dweller or manual labourer in order to achieve his aims. They're both supermen - super-smart, super-strong and with super-stoic pain tolerance. His nemesis, codename Saracen - whose father was publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia when he was a child, and who as a teenager cast aside his mother and sisters because they were too Western, and whose wife was killed by a ''Zionist rocket'' - is almost perfectly cast, except for one chink: his love for a vulnerable child. He once headed a secret espionage unit for US intelligence and is the author of the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation. The American, codename Pilgrim, is the adopted son of a wealthy family. ![]() Hayes, an accomplished screenwriter, has given his two lead characters efficient if slightly perfunctory back-stories. Much as most apocalyptic scenarios would have us do, it involves choosing sides, although both sides are wrong. ![]()
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