TWO HOURS TO VANISH.
ONE CHANCE TO ESCAPE.
ZERO ALTERNATIVES.
Ten Americans have been carefully selected to Beta test a ground-breaking piece of spyware. FUSION can track anyone on earth. But does it work?
For one contestant, an unassuming Boston librarian named Kaitlyn Day, the stakes are far higher than money, and her reasons for entering the test more personal than anyone imagines. When the timer hits zero, there will only be one winner...
From four-time Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Anthony McCarten comes a breakneck, wickedly entertaining thriller for our times, a twisty, action-packed novel reminiscent of the best Michael Crichton technothrillers.
About the Author :
Anthony McCarten is a New Zealand-born novelist, playwright, journalist, television writer and four-time Academy Award nominated filmmaker. He is best known for writing the biopics The Theory of Everything (2014), Darkest Hour (2017), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) and The Two Popes (2019), and producing motion pictures that entertain and inspire through the examination of some of history's most interesting people. He received Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Theory of Everything and The Two Popes, and won two BAFTA awards for the former. Notably, the first three of these films won consecutive Oscars in the Best Actor category (for Eddie Redmayne, Gary Oldman and Rami Malik). Bohemian Rhapsody is the second highest grossing box-office drama of all time, after Titanic. His non-fiction work, Darkest Hour, was a Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. He lives in London.
Marin Ireland is a voice artist who has won five Earphones Awards as well as the prestigious Audie Award for Best Female Narration in 2020. She is an award-winning actress known for her starring role in the Broadway show Reasons to Be Pretty, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. She has appeared in a number of off-Broadway shows and television series, including Homeland, Unforgettable, The Killing, The Following, and others.
Review :
"Going Zero is the first novel I've read in years that speeds the pulse as much as it challenges the brain."
-- "A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling autho"
"[A] relentless new nailbiter...a speculative thriller very much in the vein of a top-ranked video game or, believe it or not, of our current daily news coverage."
-- "Anniston Star (Alabama)"
"A story that is timely, frightening, exciting, suspenseful, and surprising...An outstanding thriller."
-- "Booklist (starred review)"
"Thanks to Marin Ireland's sure-footed narration, listeners will eagerly follow Kaitlyn Day through multiple plot twists in this thriller."
-- "AudioFile"
"This is one of the best thrillers I've read in a long time...I highly, highly recommend this book."
-- "Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author"
"This well-written yarn proves that you don't have to have a blood bath to have an engaging thriller."
-- "Kirkus Reviews"
