Actionpacked, suspenseful, and incredibly difficult to put down. Katie finds gracies greatest day indoctrination book from lindsay and confiscates it. Zero day is a delightful conclusion to the hatching trilogy. Everything about zero day made you want to keep reading. Baldacci wrote the camel club, but didnt write the jack reacher series, lee child did. Overall i enjoyed the novel form its detailed sentences and character development, yet this book really lacked the thrill part with not much action. As of this writing in october 2015, there is no sequel to zero day listed on goodreads.
Although i found the pacing to be a tad slow at times, i still managed to finish it in a short amount of time. Zero day by jan gangsei reading guidebook club discussion. Zero day is a nifty, paranoid thriller disguised as a murder mystery, and. The perfect ending that has even more excitement than the other two books.
I liked that the plot elements include stockholm syndrome, politics, terrorism, and family relationship among others, but i just couldnt follow the reasonprinciple of addies abductors. There is the right amount of crime and drama to lure anyone. He gives remy as the book calls brian the gimmick of an altered mental state. Zero day is a realistic fictionthriller novel by jan gangsei. His father was an army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Readers expect excitement and intrigue in david baldaccis books, and zero day is no exception. Dealing with espionage, national security, lies, secrets, family drama and kidnapping, i found this book highly.
When addie webster, the daughter of a successful politician, was kidnapped, darrow, addies childhood best friend, and the rest of the world went into mourning. Remy wakes up five days after the calamity to find that he has. Zero day was a whirlwind of emotions and uncertainty. John puller is a combat veteran and the best military. This book was so cliched, the characters so stereotyped and superficial, the suspense so nonexistent that i am certainly finished paying money to readhear books authored by baldacci. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Really good 3dimensional characters, great bugs and lots of action. To view books in process, and to suggest new books, go to books in process. Eight years ago, addie webster was the victim of the most notorious kidna. Baldaccis books are fastpaced battles between good and evil. Ive been binge watching supernatural on netflix since november and its been taking up all of my free time. Join one girls adventure in trying to do all of the things good and bad in an effort to find enlightenment and meaning.
Eight years ago, addie webster was the victim of the most notorious kidnapping of the decade. If you liked zero day you may also like other books in our thriller category. Ten best book endings, according to me, a woman who has read as much as she possibly could during her twentyseven years and who wishes every day for more reading time. John puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the u. The dead husband was in the army and the wife worked for a pentagon contractor. As baldaccis new hero narrowly escapes countless close calls, the pairing of the authors imagination and knowledge create a wild ride for the reader. Zero day is the explosive first instalment in david baldaccis thrilling john puller series. The stakes are high for all involved, and nothing is what it seems. In the first book, puller is sent to a tiny town in west virginia to investigate the horrible murder of a colonel and his whole. Zero day jan gangsei read online free books archive. Zero day book king county library system bibliocommons. She has a degree in political science and is a former newspaper reporter covering both politics and the police beat.
Zero day book pima county public library bibliocommons. Thanks to hyperion teen i had the pleasure of reading zero day by jan gangsei this past feburary, the only book i read this month. Its full of mystery and suspense to keep you on edge for the whole 360. Britains bloodiest dynasty s1 e1 britains bloodiest dynasty. If you are the publisher or author of this book and. Honestly i liked the book very much i maybe would have changed some little things like when the book showed one of the cerberus spys perspective and overall just little things like that i would give it a 65 since it was a great book and right up my alley some key events in the. Zero day book ending to the mist bizarre side effects after the.
However, the depth of the plot is just a soso for me. At no point were we told how some people miraculously got back from remote places, especially when they had a price on their heads. Young adult, mystery, thriller, contemporary, cyberterrorism this book had me since the first page. Gangseis killer political novel is a mustread for those who enjoy a tight plot in their psychological thrillers. Zero day book midcontinent public library bibliocommons.
I could dedicate a whole post to that show and i might just do that in the. The pacing is just right, and i dont find it dragging. Zero day book johnson county library bibliocommons. War hero john puller is known to be the top investigator in the us armys cid. Split second could have done with a better ending and. In the wake of the zero day uprisings, snyder knows his job is in danger. Day zero took a while to get going, but it was an amusing story. Zero day is the first book in baldaccis john puller series and i enjoyed the read, rating it a solid 4 star book. The inevitability of the ending including the loss of several characters doesnt change its poignancy, and the short chapters and slowly revealed back stories for each character guarantee the pages keep turning. We were left with a huge cliffhanger on the last book, and now this. Read zero day plot summary from the story zero day by jan gangsei. But now, 8 whole years later, when her father becomes president of the united states, she returns, but with a mission to be fulfilled.
While miranda and katie are childhood friends and bonded with julien, mark, samira, giles, nick, and bo while they were at oxford or soon after, emma didnt become part of the group until she married mark just a few years ago. The story itself is a creeping horror, a slowdawning and inevitable ending to everything we know and its relevant to today, right now. The freelance star zero day is a nifty, paranoid thriller disguised as a murder mystery, and baldacci advances it at a speedy clip with a nice mix of intrigue, tantalizing clues and the occasional explosion. Zero day book santa clara county library bibliocommons. But there are several loose plot threads and a cliffhanger ending, so it would be very disappointing if a sequel isnt planned. Read david baldaccis john puller series in order novel suspects. The rest of this story is unnecessarily long and only the crisp ending raises this novel to 5 of 10 stars.
The series centers around john puller, a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the armys criminal investigative division. Zero day delivered just the right amount of thrill and mystery. Zero day and millions of other books are available for instant access. Zero day features a return to those creeping, swarming and skittling spiders that were introduced in the hatching and skitter the world is a quite different place and the realisation that there is some coordination to the vast deadly swarms of arachnids raises the difficult question of what the us government should do about them. Zero day book chicago public library bibliocommons. It had to include the storyline, vocabulary, quotes and my opinion. Distinguished as a top investigator in the us government, john puller is called in to conduct an enquiry into the brutal murders of a family in a remote area of west virginia. Each of his stories explores an interesting concept and the characters are ones that are lasting.
The book was initially published on november 16, 2011 by grand central publishing. Zero day is the first book in the john puller series by david baldacci. I had already read most of the books on the list and so i picked zero day. A zeroday also known as 0 day vulnerability is a computersoftware vulnerability that is unknown to, or unaddressed by, those who should be interested in mitigating the vulnerability including the vendor of the target software. Military investigator john puller is called out to a remote, rural area far from any military outpost to investigate the brutal murder of a family in their home. The local homicide detective, a woman with personal demons of her own, clashes. Read my personal reactions from the story zero day by jan gangsei. There are so many questions that readers will want to have answered. Rather than providing a happy ending, the book ends on a sinister note with a. Betrayal part 1 of 4 the real game of thrones timeline duration. Zero day book san antonio public library bibliocommons. I have read a number of books by david levithan and i have loved them all. Logo created for the 2014 rebranding of 20th century foxs fox digital studio, now known as zero day fox. Puller is a military investigator sent to investigate a multiple murder in.
Best of all, he survives to reappear in the next book of this new series. Zero day is a thriller novel written by david baldacci. Army investigator john puller is on the hunt for justice with the help of a homicide detective but as they face deceptions and dead ends, a powerful force threatens to stop them forever. Until the vulnerability is mitigated, hackers can exploit it to adversely affect computer programs, data, additional computers or a network. Zero day book contra costa county library bibliocommons.
Zero day john puller book 1 and millions of other books are available for instant. Ever since college, these nine friends have remained close. Combat veteran john puller, now working as an investigator for the armys criminal investigative division, tries to solve the murder of an army man and his pentagon contractor wife in their isolated rural home. This is the first installment in the john puller book series. Environmental education resources to commemorate earth day s. And will finally stops pretending not to know what shes up to. I mentioned before that this book 3 books is just about the best bug book ive ever read, and ive read a couple of hundred of them. Jan gangsei, zero day thank you for reading books on archive. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Addie is kidnapped by an unnamed group, later discovered to be cerberus, a hacker terrorist group. There are a few heartpounding moments and a cliffhanger ending, but nothing can redeem what could have been an enticing political thriller.