Zero

by Edward Mullen

In a hyper-connected world where every move is tracked and even predicted, nine strangers must figure out how to stop a group of anonymous hackers who have taken over the world's government.

411 pages, Paperback

Published April 27, 2019

About the author

Edward Mullen is an author, blogger, and podcaster from Vancouver, Canada who is perhaps best known for his debut novel, THE ART OF THE HUSTLE and his techno-thriller series PRODIGY.

Born and raised in beautiful British Columbia, Edward developed a love for the wilderness. This love, combined with an innate curiosity about all things, eventually spawned a healthy imagination for storytelling. He continued to follow his natural passion all the way through to university. Despite spending a lot of his time indoors writing, Edward continues to enjoy the outdoors. He is an avid tennis player, mountain biker, snowboarder, runner, and traveller.

Reviews

[Michael Smith · Rating 1 out of 5]

Juvenile, one dimensional characters who roll thoughtlessly through the plot, mostly just falling into success rather than actually thinking or doing anything. This book reads more like a bad comic than a novel. The world building is is quite interesting and ripe for adventure, but the storytelling is downright terrible. Most of the time I had no clue why the characters were doing what they were doing. One of the key plot drivers for the conclusion was so understated I completely missed it when it was mentioned, not that it really mattered at all.

[Marcin Pieńkowski · Rating 4 out of 5]

A well written interesting prequel to the series (book 1 - Prodigy).
In a post apocalyptic world doing so-so is not enough to be granted a privilege of living in a society. One day they might just pack you in an autonomous vehicle to your last ride... How much is worth your life and how far will you go to challenge the system, if you are given one chance to survive to see another day?

[Joanna · Rating 1 out of 5]

A promising story drowned in soap-opera dialogues and bland explanations of the obvious. A bit of realism in the psychology section would be a nice addition, unless the author wanted his heroes seem stupid and shallow.

[Thomas · Rating 2 out of 5]

Alright, this is a prequel to a series of books. The scattered plot, an overly descriptive writing style, and often telenovela-ish dialogues did not do much to lure me into reading the rest of them.