Zeroes, Chuck Wendig
Zeroes, Chuck Wendig
List: $24.99 | Sale: $17.50
Club: $12.49

Zeroes
A Novel

Author: Chuck Wendig

Narrator: Ray Chase

Unabridged: 12 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/26/2016


Synopsis

An exhilarating thrill-ride through the underbelly of cyber espionage in the vein of David Ignatius’s The Director and the television series Leverage, CSI: Cyber, and Person of Interest, which follows five iconoclastic hackers who are coerced into serving the U.S. government.An Anonymous-style rabble rouser, an Arab spring hactivist, a black-hat hacker, an old-school cipherpunk, and an online troll are each offered a choice: go to prison or help protect the United States, putting their brains and skills to work for the government for one year.But being a white-hat doesn’t always mean you work for the good guys. The would-be cyberspies discover that behind the scenes lurks a sinister NSA program, an artificial intelligence code-named Typhon, that has origins and an evolution both dangerous and disturbing. And if it’s not brought down, will soon be uncontrollable.Can the hackers escape their federal watchers and confront Typhon and its mysterious creator? And what does the government really want them to do? If they decide to turn the tables, will their own secrets be exposed—and their lives erased like lines of bad code?Combining the scientific-based, propulsive narrative style of Michael Crichton with the eerie atmosphere and conspiracy themes of The X-Files and the imaginative, speculative edge of Neal Stephenson and William Gibson, Zer0es explores our deep-seated fears about government surveillance and hacking in an inventive fast-paced novel sure to earn Chuck Wendig the widespread acclaim he deserves.

About Chuck Wendig

Chuck Wendig is the author of the Miriam Black thrillers (which begin with Blackbirds) and numerous other works across books, comics, games, and more. A finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the cowriter of the Emmy-nominated digital narrative Collapsus, he is also known for his popular blog, terribleminds.com. He lives in Pennsylvania with his family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on July 09, 2019

Review originally posted on www.fantasyliterature.com: In Chuck Wendig’s techno-thriller novel Zer0es, five hackers — some highly skilled, some not so skilled — are not-so-innocently going about their daily business when they are unpleasantly interrupted by a tall African-American man who introduces......more

Goodreads review by Elise (On The Bookshelves) on July 15, 2016

Original review post can be found at On The Bookshelves "The Kardashians are hot." "They're not. Okay, Kim's kinda hot. But that one sister looks like a shaved Wookiee. She's basically a giant thumb with a wig." Five hackers—an Anonymous-style rabble-rouser, an Arab Spring hacktivist, a black-hat hacker......more

Goodreads review by jv on February 05, 2016

Phenomenal! To be fair, I'd buy cereal for the box if Chuck Wendig wrote the Nutritional Information. To me, when he puts the words on the paper, he can do no wrong and I believe the far-fetched, yet oddly believable narrative spun in Zer0es is a spot-on example of this. Just...wow!......more