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.
Chapters
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001 Zer0es
Duration: 24s -
002 Chapter 00
Duration: 04min -
003 Part I Chapter 01
Duration: 12min -
004 Chapter 02
Duration: 14min -
005 Chapter 03
Duration: 14min -
006 Chapter 04
Duration: 09min -
007 Chapter 05
Duration: 12min -
008 Chapter 06
Duration: 17min -
009 Chapter 07
Duration: 04min -
010 Chapter 08
Duration: 05min -
011 Part II Chapter 09
Duration: 12min -
012 Chapter 10
Duration: 21min -
013 Chapter 11
Duration: 03min -
014 Chapter 12
Duration: 03min -
015 Chapter 13
Duration: 06min -
016 Chapter 14
Duration: 27min -
017 Chapter 15
Duration: 24min -
018 Chapter 16
Duration: 08min -
019 Chapter 17
Duration: 26min -
020 Chapter 18
Duration: 06min