He had a tough childhood, but he overcame it to take on a life of crime fighting. These worlds have included everything from foster homes and Eight Mile, to places overseas such as ruins known as “the Theater of Death.” Therefore, we assume that he grew up in a troubled environment, then chose to pursue a career of hunting down bad guys. We feel both pity and admiration for the narrator from the first paragraph.Īlthough we don’t learn in chapter one who the narrator is, we do learn in the first paragraph that he is a man with a lot of experience in dark worlds and traumatic experiences. The 10 things in Chapter One that make the story stand out-and made me want to read more 1. Based on details in the chapter, we assume he’s part of a high-level covert ops team. However, we know that the narrator is investigating the crime without being part of the main team of detectives. The length of the chapter is 3.5 pages and is told from the first-person POV of the narrator, who remains unidentified. In Chapter One of Part 1 in I Am Pilgrim, we’re introduced to the narrator and the first crime. MGM has already bought screen rights to I Am Pilgrim, which is his debut novel. The English-born author has also written and produced a number of movies, including Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior and Payback. It was published in 2014, in the USA, by Emily Bestler Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. What it is: I Am Pilgrim is a thriller that was published in 2013 by Transworld Publishers in the U.K. After all, often the best way to learn how to write is by studying closely what you read. Read on to find out 10 specific things that made Chapter One stand out. When I read the thriller I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes, I was mesmerized from the first paragraph. It’s the question that keeps so many novelists up late at night: How do you start a thriller? What exactly makes a book grab a reader in the first few pages and leaves them eager to read more? Photo by Pixelbliss/Shutterstock
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