4 stars
I received a free copy of the Atlanta, Georgia-based novel Zero Day: Virtual Networks... A Near-Future Technothriller with Inspirational Romance (Binary Hackers Book 2) by Jan Thompson and this review was given freely.
For the most part, this was an action-packed and suspenseful story of retribution and redemption set primarily in the Czech Republic. It contains a few suspenseful twists, and a relationship that spans years and countries, but the ending felt anticlimactic.
This sequel features the abandoned former Binary Systems’ system analysis American hacker Kelvin Gallagher, whose desperation leads to him working with Aspasia resulting in the formation of MedusaNet which sets off a series of events leading to Cayson’s Kill Switch dilemma, Kelvin’s being captured by multiple intelligence and military entities, and his recapture to help shutdown Ulysses‘ successor to the MedusaNet. Former Marine turned Israeli Mossad agent; Yona Epstein abandons her dream career to assassinate her former acquaintance only to learn she is a pawn in a plan that could end their lives.