Eine Agent Null Kurzgeschichte (Ein Agent Null Spionage-Thriller)

Agent Zero #0.5

by Jack Mars

This original short story takes us back in time to show us how it all began. On a whirlwind, action-packed thriller ride through Italy, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, it shows us the beginning of CIA operative Agent Zero’s career—and brings us up to the fateful moment when his memory came to be lost.

Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Short Stories, Espionage, Action, Contemporary, Fiction

31 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 29, 2020

About the author

Jack Mars is author of the bestselling LUKE STONE thriller series, which include the suspense thrillers ANY MEANS NECESSARY (book #1), OATH OF OFFICE (book #2) and SITUATION ROOM (book #3).

Reviews

[Linda Galella · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very brief, very exciting and very engaging.

This is an incredibly short story - about 25 pages that took 15 minutes to read. We are introduced to AGENT ZERO who’s in the midst of a life and death situation. It goes from bad to worse and the resolution, altho’ a bit far fetched, will save lives of many but cost much of his; maybe…probably…?

I’m definitely starting book one immediately; hooked📚

[Scott A. Miller · Rating 3 out of 5]

Typical.5 Short story. I’ll give the series a try.

[The Phoenix · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think you have to maybe be a fan of the series to appreciate this. I never read any of them, so this was just.. ehh.

[Ron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sets the scene for first book in the series.

[Dugald Craig]

Great introduction to the excellent Agent Zero series.

Well written and attention holding account of the events which explain Agent Zero’s memory loss of his time as a Special Operative within the CIA. As a fan of the excellent Agent Zero series it is fair to say that much of this content is progressively revealed albeit with less detail as you follow events through the series. While not essential reading it provides a great introduction and contextualisation of his thought processes seen in the future books.

[Mayhem-RW · Rating 4 out of 5]

He was Reid Lawson, Agent Kent Steele, Codename Agent Zero for the C. I. A. part of the Special Operations Group, which was part of the Special Activities Division. In other words, he was part of the group that identified bad guys and put them and their network out of business, permanently. Well, he was. He was disavowed. He was disavowed because he went off the reservation and left a trail across Europe of dead bodies. Because Kate Lawson had been murdered while he had been in Europe looking for clues to dismantle an organization called the Fraternity. A member of the Fraternity killed his wife and left their two children motherless. He caught the assassin, and in an epic fight, he opened him from navel to ribcage cutting as deep as the butterfly knife would go. Zero left him there to die. He felt no relief, no satisfaction, and no vindication. Then, on a bridge, a man approached him at night, and it was his old teammate Alan Reidigger. In short, Alan was there to kill Agent Kent Steele but had a plan to let Mr. Reid Lawson live and return to his two daughters.

In this story, this character reminded me of an old paperback series called Mack Bolan, in that it was just him against an army of bad guys. The physical world-building was done well enough so that your imagination could fill in the holes, while the ethereal was self-evident. Which, leads me to the character interaction that was done very well and was here to fill in the character’s background for the series to come.

If you like the hero against the world or at least a clandestine organization, you should try this lunch break read. I give this short story four stars out of five stars.

[James Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the five-star rating system I use:

★★★★★ Great book! Can’t wait to read it again (and I will).
★★★★☆ Good book. I am glad I read this.
★★★☆☆ OK book. Nothing special but not bad.
★★☆☆☆ Not good. Why did I waste my time?
★☆☆☆☆ Lousy. I didn’t finish.

If for whatever reason, I go back and reread a good book, I will change the rating to five-star because I read it again.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Powerful and well written

This story is very well written, with a captivating sequence of events and a driven protagonist that elicited the kind of empathy that creates a meaningful reading experience.

[Kiki_chieuse · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un récit qui se déroule en amont de la saga elle-même. J’ai fait le choix de le lire en introduction, histoire de me faire une idée. Les chapitres s'enchaînent avec chacun son lot d’action ou de retournement. Il est évident qu’il faut lire la saga pour comprendre tous les tenants de cette nouvelle. Pour autant, j’ai compris globalement de quoi il retourne. Cet agent Zero m’intrigue, surtout si cette aventure fait office de préquel et non de séquel comme j'ai pu le croire d’emblée.

[MWBoothman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great prequel if you short

It helps out into context what I had already read about in the early Agent Zero books. Rather outlandish storyline but in the modern world of AI and many secret technologies we have yet to learn about , it is not "make believe"

[Pierre Prisset · Rating 3 out of 5]

Une aventure du héros Zéro qui se termine étrangement par une opération lui supprimant la mémoire

[Michael Robey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick audiobook....very short.

[danielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not sure I should have started this short story as my way into this new-to-me series. But, man did it grab my attention and have me look forward to this series!

[Tom Britton · Rating 3 out of 5]

I novelist ,it go there read more .off full novel

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.75

[Maria do Socorro Baptista · Rating 4 out of 5]

Muita ação e muita violência neste texto tão curto, que fala das dúvidas de um agente quanto à sua própria carreira e das necessidades de se reinventar para seguir em frente. Uma boa leitura.